The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

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

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.