Page eventually wrote down his rules for management:-Don't delegate: Do everything you can yourself to make things go faster.-Don't get in the way if you're not adding value. Let the people actually doing the work talk to each other while you go do something else.

What distinguishes the leaders of these high-performing firms is their sustained and close attention to behaviors and systems. They are not inserting themselves into every decision or displacing their teams. Instead, they act as teachers and system builders: They’re present in the work not to control it or make every decision themselves but to... See more