Your initiations are worthwhile. - Tina Fey

In other words: Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that person whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, “I am the boss! I am the boss!

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.