A leader's job isn't just hitting targets. It's building a workplace where people can do their best work without erasing who they are. The speaker argues that clearer language and better systems let teams deliver results without burning out.
Because if you lead people, your job is not just to get output. Your job is to build the conditions where output does not require self-erasure. And here's the fun part, because apparently I do bring optimism to places occasionally. These are not competing jobs. The individual contributor does not need one talk and the leader needs another. It is the same mission. The person living it needs better language. The person leading it needs better design.
