This CEO went from folding clothes at Nordstrom to being Jeff Bezos’ right hand man—the billionaire told him to delegate to his employees more

• Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, instilled one lesson in his former worker. It was 1997 when Coursera’s newest CEO, Greg Hart was a young new hire at Amazon. He climbed the ranks swiftly, becoming Bezos’ right-hand man just 12 years later. Today, Hart still points to one lesson that’s shaped his leadership philosophy: “The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization will move,” Hart tells Fortune.

During Greg Hart’s monotonous college job of folding t-shirts and jeans at Nordstrom...