Steve Jobs once said the best managers are 'individual contributors' who aren't interested in managing people

• Steve Jobs once shared some advice about how to hire the best managers in a 1985 interview. 
• He said the best managers are  "great individual contributors" who don't want to manage.
• The legendary cofounder died in 2011 and would have celebrated turning 69-years-old on February 24. 

Apple's legendary cofounder Steve Jobs once shared some advice about the best managers, and he said they're usually the people who don't actually want to be managers. 

Jobs said in a 1985 interview that when he and Apple's other cofounders realized that it was going to be a big company, they went out and hired a bunch of professional managers.