VER-XIV-0034
“I handed the credit to my team and watched them grow into it.”
You could have stood in the spotlight alone. You pointed it at them instead — and they rose to meet the trust. That is the difference between using people and building with them. Keep doing it. A leader who feeds people credit grows people; one who hoards it grows only a reputation.
Your Practice
- Name each person's real contribution, specifically, where it counts — to their faces and up the chain.
- Resist the pull to reclaim the story when it gets praised. Let it stay theirs.
- Hand the next visible win to someone ready to grow into it.
- Measure yourself by who you grew, not by how big your name got.