* Yes, executive decisions are •necessarily• made from a position of ignorance. The point of having these high-level roles isn’t (or at least should not be) amassing power, but rather having people looking at things at different zoom levels. Summary is at the heart of good management, along with the humility to know that you are seeing things in summary. If you know all the details, you’re insufficiently zoomed out. If you’re zoomed out, you have to remember how many details you don’t know.