
Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager

It is a common complaint that professionals are unmanageable. In every profession I have studied, managing partners say theirs is an impossible task because of the independent nature of the “prima donnas” they are supposed to lead.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
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There's nothing I revile quite as much as a dilettante. I don't like doing something to a mediocre level. It's great to be 70, because you really get to preach with some authority:
Get good at something. That's it. Everything else is bullshit.
— Jerry Seinfeld