You don’t need credit

Here is a lesson we all need to learn a little more. Yes, definitely me.

Over a year ago I reworked this website, right now I’m doing it again. As with last year, I am again seeking professional outside perspective to bring forward what I want to say.

One key reason for this is that I have an internal struggle with the idea of taking credit, in my case simply saying I am expert at something is a struggle (and don’t get me started on people who self-title themselves as “gurus”!).

So, as a leader, don’t take the credit for results, focus on the change you are seeking to lead, then give credit to those who take the action arising.

Today’s post was actually inspired by yesterday’s email from the Daily Stoic, one of the small number of daily emails I am subscribed to (and Seth is another, naturally!), and stoicism is a practice and area of learning for me, as I wrote about recently in: “Be a generalist.. and a stoic”.

Today, then, I reproduce that Daily Stoic email, with a powerful and ancient lesson, called, “You Don’t Need Credit”.

You Don’t Need Credit (from Daily Stoic)

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