The best companies in the world are led by a genius founder with a vision. This founder envisions how the company can become successful, then delegates that vision to subordinates. Lower-level employees are essentially like drones. The founder/CEO tells them exactly what to do to fulfill his vision, then they do it.

Take Jeff Bezos and Amazon for example. Bezos has specific detailed protocols for all his managers (now including his successor CEO), telling them what to do, then they tell their lower-level employees exactly what to do, so on and so on, to the lowest-level warehouse worker and delivery driver. It’s all designed by the leader at the top. Essentially what all great business leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk really want (or what they wish they could have) is an entire company made of clones of themselves.

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