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The point of building a self-sufficient organisation is not to step back from it, but to free yourself to work on the problem the organisation has not reached yet.

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management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Addy Osmani

    Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google

    you want to get to a point where you know, your your machine, your org is self-sufficient enough that you know, you just need to occasionally tap the blimp, make sure that things are working. You can course correct if it's not, but that frees you up to then focus on the next important sets of problems that the org needs to, you know, tackle heads on.

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