Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Good Fences Make Better Relationships - Here's Why!

16 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang argues that clear boundaries aren't selfish, they're essential. When you set firm limits and enforce them consistently, you give people a blueprint for how to treat you. Boundaries build respect in relationships, at work, and on teams.

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And people think that boundaries are somehow rude or inconvenient, or it's going to make you seem mean or selfish. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like the old Robert Frost saying, good fences make good neighbors. If you— if people don't know where your boundaries are and they don't know what they can ask of you and when, what they can't and why, they don't know how to treat you. So by establishing our boundaries and by communicating them and sticking to them, Fairly rigidly and make allowances where you absolutely have to, but not often. If we're doing that, then we're giving people a blueprint for how to treat us and for what's important to us. And I think too few of us are doing that in our personal lives, in our work lives. Far too few of us are doing that. And it's part of the work that we do with teams and with organizations about setting those boundaries and respecting them, being strong with them in ourselves and respecting them from our partners, from our coworkers, from our friends.