You balanced every priority beautifully — speed, cost, quality, stakeholders — all in perfect service of one quietly expanding thing: your remit. Headcount grew. The org chart developed a suspicious symmetry around your name. Three functions that used to report elsewhere now report to you, for reasons that made sense in a slide. The transformation succeeded. So, more importantly, did you. The board hasn't noticed yet. The board never does — until the reorg.
"A real team player." — Said about you, by people who now work for you