New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs felt hiring professional management for the consumer tech giant when they wanted to expand and had plans to make it big "didn't work at all".

Noting that "most of them (professional managers) were bozos" who only knew about management and not how to do the work, Jobs instead felt the best managers are "great individual contributors who never, ever want to be a manager" but step up due to the need of the hour.

In a clip from 1985, speaking on the early recruitment process amid expansion plans for Apple, Steve Jobs said, "We went through that stage in Apple, where we went out and we thought, 'oh, we're going to be a big company, let's hire professional management'. We went o...