The most profound thing I've learnt this last week.

"Leaders must be editors*".

A simple, simple statement. And a very important lesson. That the primary job of leaders is to let the people around them ideate/think/dream/build/work on their own. To let them seek perfection, or die trying, if they so wish. To let them stumble, fall, and pick themselves up, all on their own. To let them write the story the way they see fit, the way they see it play out in their mind's eye.

The leader holds the line.
The leader keeps it all together.
But the leader doesn't write the stories.

Leaders must be editors.
That's one hell of a tough lesson to learn.

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*Paraphrasing Jack Dorsey, at an internal meeting at Square. [Watch Video]