(originally published June 8th, 2005)<\/p>\n
I like being correct. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m any different than anyone else in saying this, except there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to go on record by saying it. In my zeal to always try to be correct, I always am on guard in making sure that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sound like a know-it-all.<\/p>\n
That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard thing to do when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a consultant, because people hire consultant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to know a lot, and some people think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to know it all. Two weeks ago I was participating in a phone conference with one person in the room with me. Something came up and I was asked a question, and I said I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I also added that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d check into it and get back to the person who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d asked the question. Right after the meeting, this woman said that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never heard anyone say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before who was in a position like mine, as in kind of an authority position. I said to her that I would be lying if I gave an answer to something without knowing if I were giving a correct answer or not. To me, credibility is more important than someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perception of my knowledge at all times.<\/p>\n
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never anything wrong with saying you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something, as long as you know how to find the answer, if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to you to find that answer. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always worse when you lead people astray with what you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. True leaders never lead others down the wrong path on purpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(originally published June 8th, 2005) I like being correct. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m any different than anyone else in saying this, except there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to go on record by saying it. In my zeal to always try to be correct, I always am on guard in making sure that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}