I've never read an article or book that saved me from making mistakes as a manager or a founder. The scenarios I seem to bump into are usually entirely preventable but also very specific. Coming from an engineering IC background (albeit with a marketer's worldview), I have had many shortcomings in managing the procedural aspects of business. I'm less experienced in business modeling, legal, and people operations. I recognized those weaknesses after a startup I had built burned down around me. I've learned a lot about those areas over the last few from many odd mistakes. I am still making mistakes - I made two just this week (that I'm aware of)!

Anyway, Founder Mode misses benefits of Manager Mode, and vice versa. As always, the answer is somewhere in the middle.