An employee we’ll call Matt was responsible for building the supply chain curriculum for his company. He was brought into a meeting with a room full of executives.  His manager at the time pulled out a chair, stuck it in the corner, and told him to sit there. So he did. The manager then proceeded to attempt to explain Matt’s design document. 

But there was a lot of confusion about what it all meant. The senior executive finally stopped her and asked who wrote the document.  The manager said that of course it came from her team but the executive wanted to know who in particular authored it. She finally admitted that Matt was the author. The senior executive told her to sit down and he called Matt up to talk through his design.