Damien had the Cole Industries reform agenda and the public commitment schedule.
I had the coordination role.
Not because anyone assigned it. Because at some point in the three hours it had simply become apparent that I was the person who understood how all the pieces connected and could see, in real time, when something in one area was going to create friction in another.
"This is what you're actually good at," Marcus said quietly, when we were packing up. "Not the plan. The coordination of the plan. The seeing of all the parts at once."
"I thought I was good at the plan," I said.
"You are," he said. "The plan got us here. But this—" he nodded at the documented second-stage structure, clean and interconnected and specifically designed to move without a single point of failure — "this
