“It’s easy,” Ron says with a sweep of his hand. “Just change the world.”

I look up from my steno pad. “Sorry, what?”

“Change the world,” he repeats, “and when I go into that roomful of executives to make the case for you, it will be an easy sell.”

The faces of men in this org who’ve recently been promoted past me drift through my mind. Most of them seem more than competent, but I’m not aware of anything world changing they’ve done. There are only so many chances to invent the Kindle, after all. “Do you have thoughts about what that might look like in my role?” I ask. “Like … how will we know I’ve done it?” We’ve already become the largest translation publisher on the planet. We’re managing translations through proprietary software that as far as we know is the first of its kind. We are in the planning stages of expanding into eight other language pairings. If all of this is too small, then I need help knowing what big enough looks like.