Enough to get things going, I guess, but very inefficient, because he would have to make too many decisions himself and there would be no way to actually control the operations. This is the Soviet Union model where the recipe for a cake in Estonia had to be approved in Moscow and the level of falsifications in what should be reliable internal reports was unprecedented.
My point is that to organize coordinated work there must be some way to persuade people to comply and endure hardships, like working at nights. I see roughly three: slavery (inequality in offensive power?), "economic inequality" in capitalism, and spiritual leadership (inequality in wisdom). I like the latter the most, but it's hard to scale, and I prefer economic inequality to slavery any day.
My point is that to organize coordinated work there must be some way to persuade people to comply and endure hardships, like working at nights. I see roughly three: slavery (inequality in offensive power?), "economic inequality" in capitalism, and spiritual leadership (inequality in wisdom). I like the latter the most, but it's hard to scale, and I prefer economic inequality to slavery any day.