“If you start running the company, then the risk is that everybody feels that now the CEO is running the company and I need to run everything by them, which just slows everything down”

Nitin Nohria · The Founder Mindset with Reza Satchu · Featuring the HBR IdeaCast: HBS Legend Nitin Nohria on the Biggest Surprises CEOs Face

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State that CEOs cannot run the company themselves; they must enable senior managers to run it

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