If you treat your job like it’s a/your business, people love that.
Your autonomy grows, your responsibility grows, you get to set strategy, etc. All the good stuff with way less of the bad stuff – because somebody else deals with that.
You go from “Do this task” to “Reach this goal” to “Find what we need and make it happen”
It’s honestly pretty sweet.
Cheers,
~Swizec
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