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How to share wisdom without overstating credentials

I wrote a book about leadership lessons from my military service but I was never in combat and I worry I'm pretending to be something I'm not

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to have earned dramatic authority can lead to subtle but significant misrepresentation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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