Someone just described my job to me:
So you work with people who are smarter than you and better and more capable at the whole thing your team is trying to do. And you just like… tell them what they already know, so that they notice what they already secretly knew but hadn't consciously realized was the right thing to do? And you help them plan to do that, and then just get out of their way and tell them what a good job they did after they do it?And have never felt more seen or personally attacked.
This is also not quite the whole of my job. Sometimes I tell people what other people they work with already know and understand so that they can make better choices. Sometimes I just write extremely high quality copy. Sometimes I tell people about problems (rather than opportunities) which they hadn't noticed yet. And sometimes I go to meetings or talk to outsiders or make decisions so that other people don't have to.
But mostly it's just giving people permission to be good at what they're already doing.
