People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
If you want to be a leader, go lead
Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.