I disagree. The best employees are the employees who don't need to be managed. They figure what out what needs to be done and walk into the business (from day one to the last day they are there) thinking like owners. Google in its very early days operated without managers. Some of the most successful companies / start-ups delivered what they delivered not due to management, but due to having a few highly-motivated individuals who were dead set in delivering something outstanding to the world. They didn't need to be micro-managed into doing what they did - they figured out what needed to be done and figured out how to get there.