■ Growing as a leader means covering greater distance between details and strategy

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• Leveling up is being able to cover a broader distance. Strategy and details.
• Not stepping out of the details.
• Details inform strategy, the more connected you are with the details, the richer and more specific the strategy you form will be.
• I used to not be in the details and it wasn’t working, and now I’m in the details and it’s working.
• Jeff Bezos question mark as an example.
• Get out of the weeds, work on the business rather than in it. Advice comes from a good place, but can lead you astray.
• See, to work on the business effectively, you need context of the business.
• Snow first melts at the edges. You need to be at the edges.
• Working directly on projects with people helps them gain context of strategy by osmosis through deeper collaboration, rather than purely by words and decisions.

Related:

• Oscillating between details and strategy
• ❝ Snow melts first at the periphery
• Snow melts from the edges
• ❝ The doers are the major thinkers