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A guy at the Tulsa airport bar said the best job advice he ever got was to stop being the smartest one in the room, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since
He told me he got passed over for 3 promotions at his old company in Dallas because he kept solving problems in meetings before anyone else could weigh in, and a mentor finally pulled him aside and explained that being right fast made his boss look slow.
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mia70014d ago
The mentor thing matters but the lesson is a little off. Getting passed over usually has less to do with being right too fast and more to do with making your boss feel dumb in front of other people. Same outfit, but one is about speed and the other is about ego.
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