Taking credit for someone else’s idea wins the meeting and loses the room.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Credit is not only about fairness, it is information other people are tracking. The moment you accept praise for something that came from someone else, everyone who knows watches you take it. You gained an afternoon of looking good and spent a room’s willingness to bring ideas anywhere near you again. That bill arrives later and quietly.

Say the name in the moment, not afterwards in private. That was her idea, I just ran with it takes four seconds. People remember who says it, and they bring you their next idea first.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose idea got presented as yours, even by accident?

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