Your Silence Is Hurting Your Company - Nilofer Merchant - Harvard Business Review - 1 views
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I worried about being seen as too young, or too brown, or too female, or too uneducated to offer the solution to the group.
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As Lincoln said, better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubt. And so, in the end, 99 times out of 100, we choose silence
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This is the problem" which can risk looking the fool and quite possibly pissing someone off, ask this: "Could it be ...that this is the problem?" "Could it be" is a conversation starter, rather than an assertion