Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness - Donald L. Barlett ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/223642110/K-ZVDCwz8Bfw18OIrVVNlKpP9wFv-cy6eKyqzdYIOoI-cover-cover.jpeg) ## Metadata - Author: **Donald L. Barlett** - Full Title: Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness - Category: #books ## Highlights - At twenty-six, Hughes had apparently learned the rule of all successful executives: leaders must delegate authority. Yet in the years ahead, he would routinely disregard the lesson, making it a custom to interfere with, secondguess, and deny authority to his managers. If, as he claimed, he “went to school” making Hell’s Angels, he promptly forgot what he had learned. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jahhn85bsjm9khc65b1evr0p))