A leadership maxim says leaders should spend 90% of their time teaching, attributed to Costco's Jim Sinegal and Luxottica's Leonardo Del Vecchio. But some leaders like Mark Zuckerberg are more hands-on, doing the work themselves rather than teaching. The real point: effective leadership requires involvement, whether through mentoring or direct execution.
If you're not spending 90% of your time teaching, you're not doing your job. Do you know who this quote comes from? Comes from Jim Sinegal, the founder of Costco, and also Leonardo Di Vecchio, who is the Luxottica founder. Luxottica owns like Ray-Ban and all these companies.
Yeah, I don't know if that's right. I know a lot of people, like if you actually look at like Mark Zuckerberg, they say he himself like will actually just do work and focuses on not just operating but actually doing. There's Many ways to get the same outcome, and people just have to choose what's right for them.
Ultimately, I think what it comes down to is, is being involved, and you're teaching in some way, shape, or form. Maybe you're doing, maybe you're actually mentoring someone, but I do think maybe this comes down to involvement.
