The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

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

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.