Leaders create leverage by developing others

At my level, I want the best people under me I can have. Why wouldn't I want stronger, more capable direct reports? Frankly, that's the only way I can do less of my job.

Your job as the manager is to enable people to be their very damn best on your team.

The role of a leader is to see potential in people that they may not even see themselves.

Horowitz is explaining "managerial leverage" - getting more output from your team than you could produce alone by having direct reports who drive initiatives rather than needing constant direction.

What's leverage is if you're telling me what you should do and how you can push the company forward, that's leverage, then I'm getting more than I'd have if you weren't there otherwise I could just manage a team.

You don't make people great. You find people that make you great, that make the company great, that you learned from, not the other way around.

If you're a CEO, what do you know about being CFO? Like what do you know about being VP, HR? The idea that you're going to take somebody who isn't world-class at marketing and make them world class and you don't know anything about marketing, is a dumb idea.