Young entrepreneurs are founding large businesses despite a lack of traditional qualifications or experience. They challenge the idea that certain jobs require specific training or that competence can only be acquired through a formal process. Meanwhile, popular management books promote basic concepts wrapped in complex language, calling into question whether management is truly a complex discipline or whether competence is a constructed concept used to determine leadership. As new digital frontiers open and ideas drive new ecosystems, pioneers known more for their ideas are disrupting traditional organizational structures and the power of management as a myth may be subsiding.