In the current environment, remaining heads down has diminishing returns; at some point, you have to make some noise just to remind the market you exist.
Working shoulder to shoulder isn’t about doing the work for your team — it’s about helping them own it at a higher level, so execution improves without constant oversight.
This sentence construction (“It’s not just this — it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that it’s no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it’s almost a guarantee.