DTH-XII-0029
“I got the role I worked years for and I want it to mean something.”
The title is real and earned. But a title is borrowed — it will be someone else's in a decade, and no one is remembered for the org chart. What lasts is what you build with the power while you hold it: the people you raise, the standard you set. Use the seat. Don't just sit in it.
Your Practice
- Name one person you can now lift who couldn't lift themselves. Start.
- Decide the one standard you'll hold even when it's inconvenient.
- Write what you want said about your time in this role when it ends.
- Spend the new authority on something that outlives your tenure.
The Architects
“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), On Death