Good article Josh, but I am sure there are more things the incompetent fear than exceptionalism. I'm also sure that there are good middle-managers. Yet this Yahoo thing really is a joke. Anytime a company "cracks down" they only manage to chase away the good people. If management was worth their salt they'd cleverly sneak away and create a new company, impose their crack down, and then hire every employee that quits because they know they are better than that into the the new company secretly. Then let the original rotted out & bloated company go down like the Titanic. All in "John Galt" style.

Good article. Where did you work that your lady manager was so afraid of you?