The whole idea behind the right altitude is not a metaphor for ambition. It’s a metaphor for fit. The altitude where your natural ability meets the work you’re actually built for. Not too high, not too low. Just right — and nobody can assign it to you from the outside.
Her open door had become an open funnel. Every decision flowed through her — not because her team was incapable, but because she’d trained them that her door was faster than figuring it out themselves.
