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

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

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

Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

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

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.