Warren Buffet

A business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Warren Buffet is a delegator. He empowers his executives and views himself as the capital allocator. Before acquiring the controlling interest in a business, he assures the owners that he would not interfere with the running, hiring, or compensation decisions of the company. This hands-off approach ensures the managers to perform as they used to.

He weighs the decisions in retrospective to its impact on the balance sheet. Buffet was reported to managing 257,000 employees in Berkshire Hathaway, with just 21 people at its headquarters. He makes himself available to all his executives and gets regular financial reports from them. He gives generous bonuses to his executives, which are many times more than the salary paid.