The Systems of Elite CEOs: Setting the Stage for Billion-Dollar Growth

difficulty entrepreneurs had getting good managers to work well together and have constructive conversations rather than engage in corporate politics and gamesmanship.

Foundations and planning for goals and resources A comprehensive hiring approach Intentional team development Feedback and performance mechanisms

Above all else, your leaders need to be able to simplify, delegate, predict, systemize, and structure.

A manager’s job is to take what skills they have, the ones that got them promoted, and figure out how to make them scale. They do this by building a team that accentuates their strengths and, more importantly, reinforces where they are weak.