I don't agree with the hole post, but the "administration layer" paradigm Joel has been proposing is kind of interesiting. In a way, it's the extreme opposite of the norm, and that's good, it challenges the way people normally think about "managment". It's humanistic by design. The problem is that, as not everybody is Jobs, not everybody is Spolsky.

This shouldn't be read as a sctrict methodology or recipe to copy. In programming, as Joel wrote, there are cheffs and there are McDonal's "burger flippers". That analogy also applies to managment.