"You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back."

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At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.

— Steve Ballmer