What gets lost between people often becomes the problem later. In a relay race, the baton exchange can determine everything. The runners may both be strong. The strategy may be sound. But if the handoff is sloppy, the race can be lost in a second. Work is full of handoffs too. One shift to the next. Engineering to operations. Project team to maintenance. Office to field. Leader to leader. And a lot of problems don’t begin because somebody did poor work. They begin because

The person holding the trophy is rarely the only one who made the win possible. Awards season is a good reminder of something we sometimes forget at work: success is almost never a solo act. The actor gives the speech. The director gets the interview. The executive gets the headline. But behind every great production is a much bigger team: writers, editors, camera crews, lighting, sound, design, assistants, schedulers, drivers, technicians, and dozens of people whose names

The strongest teams work when everyone plays to their strengths. When my daughters performed in Matilda, they each had a different role to play. Different characters. Different moments. Different ways of showing up. And that was the beauty of it. No one had to be the whole show. No one had to carry every scene. Each child learned their part, supported the people around them, and trusted that when everyone did their job well, the whole production came together. That’s a pretty