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> If a candidate were to say “that’s my doing” when describing the outcome of a prior team project, "I made that" is the ultimate statement of pride in work. T
by indymike 4y ago
> If a candidate were to say “that’s my doing” when describing the outcome of a prior team project,
"I made that" is the ultimate statement of pride in work. Taking that away is a really awful anti-pattern in management. Let your people be proud of their contribution, and equally proud of the product of the team. The work of a team is the sum of the contribution of all members.
> a reasonable exaggeration in many circumstances
I find people who take credit for the work of the team to be a lot worse than people who take pride in their contribution to the team.
- btown 4y agoBy no means am I saying that "I made that" is a bad thing when it's true! It's vital to lionize people for the work they individually do, and encourage them to take pride in that work themselves. But if they use the same language to describe the entirety of a team project, not just their contribution, as "my doing" alone, that often crosses a line into toxicity in the ways you mention in your second paragraph.