When you over promise, you break that trust, even if your intentions are good. Be real, be consistent, show up for your team every day. And if you do that, you will build trust and loyalty. And people in the long term will appreciate the honesty more than they will be misled.

What's up, guys?

Welcome back to Build.

And today I want to talk about something that I haven't spoken to before, which is over-promising and why false opportunities are going to destroy your team.

So I'm making this podcast at 6 a.m.

And I'm drinking my coffee.

And it really just has been something on my mind for the last 24 hours,

because it's really relevant for me right now. And so, you know, I was writing down my thoughts

and I was writing down things that I want to learn from this. I want to teach my team through

these situations that I have uncovered in my own company. And I figured this would be a great

opportunity to make a podcast,

especially while it's top of mind.

And really, you know, it circles back to, I've taken over a department and been digging into one where the leader has been flipped out. And, you know, I think a lot of the times when

you flip out a leader, it's because, you know, you're like, this person had bad intentions.

This person, you know, did wrong. This person, you know, purposely was, you know, you're like, this person had bad intentions. This person, you know, did wrong.

This person, you know, purposely was, you know, conniving or deceptive and all these

things.

But I think there's an opposite end of the spectrum that actually quite a few people fall into.

And I think that like probably within the beginning of my career, I probably would have

fallen more in this bucket.

I had great mentors.

So I don't think I did. But it's really over-promising.

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