If you’re a freelancer working for yourself, or a member of a team who needs to ship the work, then your job is to get onto the field and play the game.

If you’re a bootstrapper building a business bigger than you, or the leader of a team then your job isn’t to get onto the field and play the game. Your job is to understand the game, to go to the place where the game is played and observe the game, to devise a winning strategy for those in your team, and then give them the tools, guidance and support they need to play their best and get the win.

And if you’re a leader, and you’re on the field, with your head down, eye on the ball, a star player – who is standing on the sideline with a view of the entire field devising the winning strategy?