[colechristensen]

>Give as few orders as possible, once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

Being a leader is a matter of taste. Make the decisions you need to make, take the actions you need to take, delegate the rest. If you had a very qualified group of people to do absolutely everything done you didn't want to do yourself "you" would get an incredible amount of stuff done.

Watch The West Wing for a taste of how the president of the US operates.