In general, governance power should be given to those who are truly invested in making good governance decisions and contributing to the community in the long term.
We often assume that some acute and looming threat — be it a foreign invader or a domestic demagogue — will be our downfall. But if we were to end, that end is just as likely to come from something far less dramatic: our failure to sustain the work.
Bottom line: the creativity of your staff isn't for coming upwith your core ideas for you, it's for making your core ideasbigger and better once you've come up with them. To say "I'llknow it when I see it" is to abdicate the hard work of creationwhile hoarding the authority to declare what is or isn't good.
“The most important thing to do when you’re launching a brand,” Sternberg says, “is to explain to people why the f— they should care. Why do you exist? And why are you different?”