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2 Overtness About Task

hoever you are, whatever your position or level of authority,
Wit all starts with you. You are the seed of the cultural crystal
that you will create.
You may have gotten that idea from the book’s title. You’re reading
Make Work Great; it should be apparent by now that you are the one
who will do the making.
You may have drawn that conclusion from the Prologue, which
closed by inviting you (and no one else) to “choose to choose”—that
is, to make the conscious choice that you will be a setter of precedent,
not a slave to it.
You probably got the same idea from reading the last chapter, with
all its talk about you being the nucleus and demonstrating to others
how to organize and attach.
Hopefully, you felt you were in the driver’s seat while you did the
Chapter 1 exercises. If you skipped them, please consider returning
to them now. They don’t take long, and they’re designed to get you
thinking and acting like the person at the center of it all.
That’s who you are. I’m repeating this message because it seems to
be one of the hardest for people to hear. Many of us were trained by
example to externalize the sources of our environmental problems:
an incompetent teacher, a distracted parent, a thoughtless driver,
an uncaring coworker, a disengaged boss. “They” inadvertently (or

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