1081: How to Deal with Credit Stealers at Work with Andrew Palmer

If you can defles up front, which forces people to acknowledge we are all working together on this thing and we have some kind of role clarity, we all have a contribution to make. That is helpful and doing that up front is particularly helpful. And putting it on all the documentation might seem sort stupid, but it's actually a way of immediately signaling to the world and the people on the team that we're all in this together in some way. One way to think about this is you hate other people stealing credit for your ideas. Are you doing it yourself? And there is a ton of research about something called cryptonesia, which basically is credit stealing when you're not aware of it. Involuntary.

Claiming of credit. That's Andrew Palmer. He spent over 18 years at The Economist as a writer and editor. Currently he writes the Bartleby column on the workplace and hosts the Boss Class Podcast. Andrew's written on many workplace topics of today. We're zeroing in on the one behavior that annoys colleagues more than any other. Credit stealing.

So you'll learn one, why no one benefits from credit stealing, including the stealer. Two the unintentional ways people steal credit. And three, why crediting others actually makes you more credible. And if you want a quick summary write up of these actionable takeaways from Andrew, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at awesomeatyourjob.com. I'm Pebe Kitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's Andrew.

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