...while being a painful place to work at, so not really disproving the point.

Plenty of other CEOs have thought the secret to Apple's success was micromanaging like Steve Jobs and been proved very wrong.

The best CEOs hire people smarter than them (in their respective disciplines) rather than assuming they always know best.

Those CEOs are often not around though once the company has fully matured. Then it’s back to micro managing and endless unclear company priorities..