>show me any group of five human beings or five apes or five dogs, and I want to see the one where a status difference does not emerge. It’s who we are as creatures.
This. The need for management arose once we stopped being nomads and started to organize ourselves into collective groups. Look at Native Americans, even they had Chieftains.
"Yes, when a young man kills much meat he comes to think of himself as a chief or a big man, and he thinks of the rest of us as his servants or inferiors. We can't accept this... So we always speak of his meat as worthless. This way we cool his heart and make him gentle."
Managers get chosen to be managers they dont all of the sudden come in after they do something important and say I am a manger or team lead or what have you.
Status difference can take many forms other than management hierarchy. Indeed, one big problem with management hierarchy is that it messes with the "native" status system of the creative disciplines, which is based on technical merit and peer respect. That contradiction is well known to most of us who have spent time on a software team at a non-software BigCo.
So the point is not to get rid of status difference (which would mean replacing human nature and thus be foolish) but to find organizational forms that are better aligned with how creative work gets done.
I was trying to look for a traditional group of people that were pre Industrial revolution. That had organized groups of people with leaders or "managers". People started to study management in the 1800s so I wanted something before that time.
Working right now so I was in a rush and Indians were the first to come to mind.
This. The need for management arose once we stopped being nomads and started to organize ourselves into collective groups. Look at Native Americans, even they had Chieftains.