Leaders are responsible for culture and strategy. Everything else is secondary.

Link: The Two Rails of Leadership, by Corey Ford in Point CI’ve been thinking a lot about my entrepreneurship journey lately — and how I can draw lessons from it to help journalism — and this piece from Corey Ford landed at the right time.“Culture and strategy are the two things a leader is responsible for designing; everything else is delegable. […] Your job as a leader isn't to come up with the next big thing. It's to build the culture, the people, and the process that can continually do this: a team whose velocity of learning outruns the pace of change. That capability lives on the culture rail. The strategy is what it produces.”I basically punched the air.The thing is, so many of us have got into the trap of either managing the incremental changes that we feel are needed to keep the lights on, or defining ourselves by the product we create rather than who we create it for. In doing so, we build inward-looking cultures that put us in danger of losing touch with the world we’re…

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