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MAKING YOUR OPINIONS VALUABLE
No matter how sincere your good intentions, your critical opinions may not always be received well. If you are a passionate worker, you may also be a perfectionist to some extent, a person who is seeking improvement all the time. You’ll therefore find flaws more easily, and people may feel that you are judging them and thinking that they are doing things wrong. This brings the risk of your being labeled “too critical.” Once you get that label, it can become increasingly hard for you to raise the bar of achievement for the company and the people around you. So picking your battles carefully and keeping your allies is extremely important.
This chapter gives guidelines for balancing a critical attitude with compassion ...
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