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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.