Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.