What gives?
My Director thinks she's inspiring. She's just controlling and will not let anyone else get excited about making things happen. It has to come back to what she did. She takes credit for the work of others and squashes anyone else's excitement.
She knows she does it too, knows she is insecure.
Cringeworthy.
Pull it together! If you read this and think it is about you, then it probably should be.
narcissism- a trait Nike selects for in middle to senior management candidates
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Ask yourself why you can't share the credit. If you are a Director defending the "I, I, I" behavior. It's time to look at yourself in the mirror... and perhaps to see a therapist about deep-rooted insecurities ... and learn something about modern leadership.
My favorite was the VP I reported to, who just repeated the same things someone else would say in meetings to have the last word.
She felt insecure around women and worked hard to prove herself to men. It was awful to witness. Thankfully I don't work with her anymore...or Nike for that matter.
Oh man, the stealing of work is what is ki-ling Nike, it is linked to the favoritism and hierarchical/elitist culture that is fostered at the Director and especially at the Senior Director level.
The end result of this culture is that leaders become presenters, and don’t actually know what they are presenting. Their main focus at Nike becomes acquiring visibility not knowledge. I can’t tell you how many times I have had either a vp or SD tell me this will be good for your career just think you will get a lot of visibility. But before that please submit xyz by end of day tomorrow. Only to never hear of the outcome but rather find out so and so is now leading xyz. And the kicker is so and so is the same person that always gets the career growth work because they are the coat tails person that each VP SD and D have, you know the one, the one who has the least talent on the team but the one the leaders can control.
I got su-ked in on this two or three times never looking for visibility but just wanting to work on cool stuff. So now I produce sub par work for them to take credit for. lol they don’t know the difference but are wondering why their leader isn’t as keen.
I think being in such a small market with not many big companies impacts this behavior
Most of the time, if you are truly don't amazing work, the people around you know who did it.
OP, I think the comment below is probably written by your Director. Blaming you for her insecurity is a good way to pass the buck and avoid blame.
Why are you so concerned about receiving credit? Your role is to support the boss and the team, right? If you perform well, your boss will be your biggest advocate. Focusing too much on getting credit, exposure, or visibility is cringeworthy. Ask yourself the question. Why are you seeking attention? Is it your own insecurity? When you support your boss, they’ll support you in return
Are you talking about my director?
I have something like this happen. I am not allowed to get too excited about something I worked hard on for a long time. If people like it, I think my Dir gets jealous and then redirects to herself.
It takes the fun out of work. It's depressing.
OP here. It's a "Well, I blah blah blah"
"This went well because I...." ("Not because of your thing..." implied)
Not "We"
She doesn't see it.
Credit is a weird thing. People are super sensitive about it. They can also be obsessed with it.
Stealing credit is saying "I" did this specific thing, when in fact, you personally, did not.
Stealing credit is not saying "we" did this thing when you are the leader or a member of the "we" - that is championing wins and getting visibility for your team.
Stealing credit is also not sharing wins and calling out the participants by name.
Some people think that simply the act of talking about something that you personally did not do, but maybe influenced, led peripherally, or advocated for is "stealing credit." But it's not.
I've worked here a long time, and verbalizing wins, talking about team achievements and making sure people constantly see the value your team generates is part of the game. It's how roles stay funded and you win the game of AOP.
It's almost never as cut and dry as "they always take the credit."
That said, there are some sh---y bosses out there too.