There’s everybody else on your team, and then there’s you.

Everybody else does what’s necessary to pull off the flights and magic that take you from where you are now to where you’ve all agreed you want to go.

They do the day to day, they do the project work, they jump the chasms and stride the hills along the way, pulling together in pursuit of common goals.

Then there’s you.

Your job is to show, not tell, keeping everyone on theirs. You dig in when necessary and remember, every now and again, to bring them all together to remind them of where they’re heading and why they’re going.

And.

You have the authority to screw it up without even trying

To get in the way, to change direction, to confuse, to frustrate, to be the biggest and tightest bottleneck.

Skippy strategy: Remind yourself where north is.