If your firm is one in which partners negotiate fees or rates, bend over backwards to be fair to the partners you invite onto your team. Even if your client is more important to the firm than theirs, don’t expect them to drop everything to handle your engagement or to throw in their work uncompensated. Credit is another important type of currency, and people are keenly aware of how fairly (or not) it gets divided in teams. Some of the strongest complaints arise about partners who entice others onto a project but then fail to give them any face time with clients, pigeonhole them into areas where they won’t shine, fail to acknowledge their contribution—or, worse, take credit for it themselves. Don’t waste your colleagues’ time by repeatedly changing deadlines. Don’t create fire drills by getting people to work all night and then ignoring their input for days. Most partners know better than to treat their peers like this, but they fail to recognize that a reputation for abusing associates’ time is also a turnoff for partners who hear about it.