If you need credit to keep going, you’re working for applause, not the team.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Needing recognition to keep going is not a character defect, it is just useful to know, because it tells you what the work is actually for. If the credit stops and so do you, then the applause was the point and the team was the setting. That arrangement holds fine until a stretch where nobody is watching, which every team eventually has.

Do one useful thing this month that cannot be traced back to you. Notice whether it still feels worth doing. If it does not, that is information rather than a failing, and worth sitting with honestly.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Would you keep doing it if nobody ever mentioned your name?

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