What we rarely celebrate is everything that made those moments possible. The revisions. The practice. The conversations. The systems. The follow-up. Organizations are no different. Everyone notices the successful project. A few weeks ago, I spent hours editing video. Not recording it. Editing it. Watching the same thirty seconds over and over. Deleting words. Moving clips. Changing transitions. Removing things I thought were brilliant two days earlier. None of that work will ever be noticed....

When I tell people I was fired the same day I was supposed to get a promotion, they usually react the same way. "That's awful." It was. Then I tell them something else. It eventually took seven people to absorb everything I had been doing. For a long time, I wore that like a badge of honor. See? They needed seven people. It made me feel valuable. Looking back, I don't think that's what it meant at all. Like a lot of leaders, I had become the person everyone relied on. I knew where everything...

I had a box spring sitting in my garage for months. Garbage wouldn’t take it.I didn’t feel like dealing with it. So it sat there. Day after day, becoming something I avoided. Until yesterday, when I finally dragged it outside and started ripping it apart with a hammer. No plan. No real strategy. Just… done looking at it. And as I stood there pulling it apart, I realized. This wasn’t a hard problem. It was an avoided one. Where This Shows Up at Work This happens inside teams more than we...