Tip #1: Maybe don’t hire a leader in the first place.
“I think the most important thing is squaring in your mind exactly what the purpose of a leader is … not somebody who is leading the technical development of something, but a person that you’ve empowered to lead the people … their primary function is to structure, operate, and perfect communities of effort. And so if that makes you nervous, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘What about all the work I have for this person to do,’ you may not actually need to add a leader.”