🌴225. Why Just Doing Your Job Is Now a Competitive Advantage
In 2025, can simply delivering on what you promised make you exceptional?
Today’s episode is part rant, part reminder. I share the saga of Chris’s 1979 Pontiac Trans Am restoration — from the iconic “screaming chicken” sticker disaster to the stereo shop that ghosted us — plus a Mount Coot-tha coffee queue that had me questioning how businesses set (or don’t set) expectations.
Here’s what we cover:
- Why the bar for “exceptional” seems lower than ever
- How meeting deadlines and specs still puts you in the top 20%
- Why honest, timely communication is everything
- The real damage of poor expectation-setting
- Simple fixes to make your clients feel confident in you
It’s a rant, yes. But also a hopeful reminder: deliver on your promise and you’re already ahead of most.
🎧 Listen now and let me know — is it just me, or have you noticed the same thing?
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