Mail bag for December 2019: when your team wants your job, personal brand, and service registries.

Thanksgiving week started well, and then took a hard pivot towards influenza, which meant that I haven’t had much energy to write or think over the past bit. I did get a handful of interesting questions emailed in though, so I figured I’d do an email grab bag of three anonymized questions that came in over the past week and an answer to each.

When your team competes with you

The first question is a particularly challenging one, dealing with a team member who wanted your job when you were...