Wanting credit for your work isn’t ego. Just make sure you hand it out too.

Asking to be recognized for what you did is accuracy, not vanity, and people who never do it end up invisible in exactly the rooms where being seen matters. The line sits somewhere else. It is about what you do with other people’s contributions, because claiming yours while quietly absorbing theirs is the part that reads badly, and everybody notices.

Say what you did plainly this week, with no apology in front of it. In the same breath, name who did the other pieces. Specific credit handed out gets remembered longer than credit taken.