I wasn’t making any particular claim to leadership, nor had I been given prior authorization to lead. I’d acted like the team’s leader by asking Chris and Randy questions that would help them organize their thinking and solve their problem. That’s what Dara liked. His promoting me endorsed the idea that you have to rise to the performance level of the job you want to have, which means that you have to just freakin’ do the job. If you come in acting like the boss, bossing people around in order to feel powerful, the most common response is going to be “Who the fuck are you?” So the trick is to
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