12/08/2026
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Here's a pattern worth noticing in yourself.
Someone I worked with prepared efficiently for clients. Thorough, quick, done, delivered.
For internal audiences, her own colleagues, she prepared twice as long. Over-built every deck. Pre-answered questions nobody ever asked.
Same skills. Same subject. Double the hours.
And the stakes had nothing to do with it. The client work carried more risk by a distance.
The difference was who she could hear while she worked. Internal audiences woke up a particular commentary in a particular tone, and the tone belonged to a manager she'd left ten years earlier.
He hadn't seen her work in a decade. He was still supervising the preparation.
The blog this week goes further into this at https://keithblakemorenoble.com/whose-standards-are-you-actually-meeting/