2 min
Reduce the noise
On being the person who removes drama, not the one who brings it.
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The best people I've worked with don't bring drama.
They remove it.
They don't escalate everything.
They don't make their boss guess what they need.
They don't walk in with a problem and no direction.
They bring clarity.
Context.
A next step.
Somewhere along the way I realized my job wasn't to agree with my boss, or pretend things were fine when they weren't.
My job was to make them more effective — clearer decisions, less friction, fewer surprises.
I've worked for people I didn't love.
That didn't change the job.
You can add noise, or you can reduce it.
The people who keep moving forward are almost always doing the second one.
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