Five ways to be the most valuable person on your team (they’re not what you think)

Most people assume that being the most valuable person on a team means delivering the most. The best outputs. The deepest expertise. The highest score on whatever performance metric the org has decided matters this year. That framing is incomplete in a way that costs teams a lot. The most valuable person on a team is rarely the highest individual performer. More often, it’s the person who makes the team itself work better: someone who creates clarity, moves decisions forward, and hel...