Enforce management training by teaching it yourself. Managing the company is the CEO’s job. While you won’t have time to teach all of the management … - Ben Horowitz

Move fast and break things Mark Zuckerberg believes in innovation and he believes there can be no great innovation without great risk.

Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer, and even one-on-one meetings with managers and employees. Absent a well-designed communication architecture, information and ideas will stagnate, and your company will degenerate into a bad place to work. While it is quite possible to design a great communication architecture without one-on-one meetings, in most cases one-on-ones provide an excellent mechanism for information and ideas to flow up the organization and should be part of your design.

Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, 'What am I not doing?'