Whether Hitler was mad or not was irrelevant, what mattered was whether he was a competent commander or not.
The Stavka was composed of other high commanders other than Zhukov, see for instance Vasilievsky, Voronov, Antonov, etc.
As an example as you request see:
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Defenders of Stalin seem to concur although Stalin was not a great military strategist Stalin was still a great leader due to the fact that he often deferred to Zhukov and General Chuikov, leader of the Russian forces inside of Stalingrad.
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Stalin certainly was a good strategist, having learnt his art by "rubbing shoulders". Remember he started as all the others with the Civil War, where he took a relevant part. V.I.Chuikov is totally irrelevant here, as despite his valor he never climbed above the level of Army Commander (see 62nd Army at Stalingrad, 8th Guards Army at Berlin), being made a Marshal of the SU after the war only. Where did ever Stalin defer to Chuikov?