Steven Sinofsky — American Businessman born on December 30, 1965,

Steven Jay Sinofsky is a former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 13, 2012. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Internet Explorer as well as online services such as Outlook.com and SkyDrive. Sinofsky is currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he serves on boards of investments... (wikipedia)

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.