Your work becomes larger when it creates opportunities for others to work well.

Work has a direct effect and a second one that is easy to overlook. The second is whether it makes other people’s work easier, clearer, or possible at all. That effect multiplies through everyone it touches, which is how relatively small contributions end up mattering far more than their size suggests.

Ask what you could do this week that would remove an obstacle for someone else. Answer a question properly, clean up a mess they inherit, share what you learned the hard way. It costs you an hour and saves them many.