I spent over thirty years in the corporate world. On numerous occasions the president considered that either something was so important, or he wanted it to seem so important, that he stepped in personally and ran it. In every case I recall, it was either a disaster or not as effective as it might have been otherwise. The problems are many. If the president had, at one point, the knowledge and competence to do the thing, however he thinks things work, they have evolved and no longer work that way. Another issue is people who do know what’s going on and how things work defer to the president. If they don’t and try to add input it isn’t well received and nobody wants to get into a fight with the president. My takeaway is when the president of anything gets involved things go badly.
Oh, one other issue of the top getting personally involved. It’s a message to everyone under him and the people under them that he has zero faith in his leadership team. Way to build a great team.