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Meta Description:
Over-functioning feels responsible, but it quietly erodes leadership credibility. Scott Smith examines the hidden cost of excess action.

🎙️ Episode Summary

Over-functioning often begins as responsibility.
Stepping in feels helpful. Finishing the work feels necessary.

In this episode, Scott Smith explores the Stoic idea of excess — not emotional excess, but excess action. When leaders repeatedly absorb work that is not theirs, credibility shifts. Authority thins into reliability. Judgment gives way to substitution.

Nothing breaks immediately.
Results still arrive.

But credibility fades long before outcomes do.

🧠 What You’ll Learn Today
• Why effort does not equal authority
• How excess action erodes leadership credibility
• The difference between judgment and substitution
• Why over-functioning teaches the wrong lesson
• How clarity disappears without distance

🔍 Tags:
Stoicism, Leadership, Credibility, Over-Functioning, Judgment, Role Ethics, Inner Strategy

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Hosted by Scott Smith, founder of Akhada Consulting, co-founder of ChatWorx, and host of The Outsourcing Blueprint podcast, this series blends ancient Stoic wisdom with real-world business strategy to help you lead with clarity, manage both your teams and yourself effectively, and move with purpose.

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