Delegation is over-rated, micro-management is under-rated and misunderstood.

In a new interview, Mark Zuckerberg talks about this

“probably one of my most controversial leadership or management things is I don’t actually believe in delegating that much. I kinda think like the way a founder should work is you should basically make as many decisions and get involved as in as many things as you can”

Every great founder I’ve encountered does the above. They are in the details – every technical nuance, every financial model’s implications, every pixel. I rarely see a great company run in any other way.

The natural question that gets asked is: doesn’t this make every leader below them unhappy? I’ll answer this empirically: look at the core leadership team of any FAANG company and you’ll see they have the same set of people for many, many years.