House Cuts / Influence
Make Room. Don’t Ask for Applause.
Lacy asks Mar how to tell someone helping the group from someone chasing the spotlight. Mar answers from backstage experience—and the room notices.
When someone quietly makes room for the person getting talked over—and doesn’t need applause for it. Backstage, that’s usually the difference between helping and hogging the spotlight.
Mar surprised me—in a room full of people who know how to hold the floor, she noticed who might be left out of it. That’s a lovely instinct.
For Mar, leadership is making space for the person being talked over without turning the gesture into a performance.