A hive doesn’t run on one hero. It runs on thousands of ordinary jobs done well.

Big results are almost never the work of one remarkable person. They are thousands of unremarkable jobs done properly, by people whose individual share would look small if you examined any one of them. Waiting to be the hero of your group is a way of avoiding the ordinary job in front of you. The ordinary job is the mechanism.

Find the plain task your team keeps leaving undone and take it without being asked. Keep doing it after the novelty wears off. Notice how much of the group’s success turns out to be made of things like that.