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

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

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

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

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.