A number of years ago as a project manager, I was asked by a VP to set-up a brand-new, fully functioning Salesforce instance over the weekend. The present day version of me can laugh at this for the absurdity that it is, but at the time, I was a ball of stress. It didn’t feel…
I once started my day by assuaging the heartache of one of my team members. He came in looking disheveled and not as perky as normal. When I asked him how he was doing, he unloaded about a breakup he had the night before. They’d be dating for long enough that he had been planning…
I’m about to get pretty vulnerable. And, to keep things on the up and up, I’m going to hold back some identifying details about the situation, but I promise it’s all true. A number of years ago, I got what I thought was going to be my dream job. It seemed to align with so…
You told yourself you wouldn’t do it again.
And yet… you still stepped in, picked it up, and handled it.
Over-functioning isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a pattern.
One that quietly turns you into the person everything depends on—while everyone else adapts around you.
You’re the person everyone relies on. You’re the one who always delivers. You get things done even if those around you don’t. And, it’s quietly costing you more than you think. Reliability Isn’t The Problem – It’s Just Another Role You’ve Been Given You’ve become the reliable one because you’re competent. Others know that they…
There is a brand of leadership that gets praised, piled on, and then burnt out. It’s the person who jumps in. The person who notices all the gaps in the process and fills them before they become a problem. They take on more and right the ship. They become the person everyone relies on to…