> I'm not clear on the use of "manager" and "mini-manager" here. and i'm
> especially confused by "inner mini-manager". Is the role of manager a
> bad thing, to be gotten rid of?
I thought "mini-manager" was repeating a phrase I read in a blog post by a Valve employee. I can't find it now. TS said it better:
"so utterly subordinate to their boss's interests, that the boss can start fading away"