The point is the wolf does not need managment. He has built up a model in his head of the problem and solution space better that a team of 1x specialists. T expose it to "managment" , "oversight" and "accountability" is to destroy it, especially for the article that shows an innnovative solution to an organizational pain point. They may be poorly managed, but they may be well managed, either way the managment style likey does not match the particular problem and/or solution the wolf is adressing. One of the key premises of The Innnovators Dillema is that well managed companies are well managed in sweet spots of operation and struggle outside of that sweet spot.

Now, the wolf may benefit from hands off managment, but they will need leadership support. The author seems to have proposed a style of leadership centered around hands off managment and letting the wolf sink or swim. I would hope thismstyle of leadershio includes him holding a life support by the sidelines. (leadership != management)

> One of the key premises of The Innnovators Dillema is that well managed companies are well managed in sweet spots of operation and struggle outside of that sweet spot.

This become apparently quickly to anyone thats worked in a rapidly scaling company, switched from megacorp to startup, or vice versa.

There are processes and controls that make a lot of sense when you have 100k employees that will literally strangle your company to death when you have only 20 employees. What process & controls you add over time, as you grow from 20->200->2000->20k is another question.

If you hire too many megacorp thinkers into your smallcorp too early, you will observe this friction. Likewise if you do grow to 2000 people and still have Bob the Wolf ordering servers on his personal Amex, you're probably gonna have some problems.