Has Your Company made this Traditional Mistake Managing a Team

What traditional mistake is this? Search through your history,  you know its there....just lurking below the surface. Ah. There it is.

The Myth of the Genius Software Developer.

Sometimes it goes beyond myth, to adulation, subservience, and worship. Managers, the incompetent ones, prostrate themselves to the genius software developer thus leading them and their project down the path of doom.

Managers become lackeys.  Sorting the technical laundry too scared that all those eggs that they put in that one basket will fall. Scared that they would loose their genius.

Losers.

All of them.