Best Way to Manage Geeks?

drummerboy195 writes to tell us that he recently read a 1999 interview with Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Novell, and wondered how applicable the information was today. How much have things changed since the dot com bust in terms of management? What other good and bad techniques have Slashdotters seen evolve from both supervisory and supervised positions?

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Re:Truely flexible schedule

[RobertLTux]

a Good Manager knows the lesson of an aircraft flagman
Sometimes you direct (actual management)
Sometimes you go with the flow (why mess with success)
Sometimes you GO FOR THE PHONE (this is when you have a Plane trying for negative relative altitude rapidly)