A win shared generously leaves more people willing to help produce the next one.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Credit is not a fixed quantity, though people behave as though it were. Naming the others who made something possible costs you very little of the actual standing and buys an enormous amount of future willingness, because everyone watching learns what happens to contributors around you. Hoarding produces the opposite lesson just as efficiently. The effect compounds quietly over years and is almost invisible while it is happening.

After the next thing that goes well, name two people specifically and in public. Say what they did, not just that they helped.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who deserves naming in the last success you claimed?

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