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When you hand your authority to the loudest voice

In the meeting there was a guy who spoke loudest and surest, and I found myself deferring to him even though I knew more about the topic than he did. By the end he was running the decision and I was nodding along. I keep handing my say to whoever sounds most confident, in rooms where the call was mine to make.

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You defer to whoever seems most confident, even when the call was yours.

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