634: Why Being Afraid to Be Wrong Is Hurting Your Executive Presence and the Way You Come Back from a Mistake is Your STRONGEST Asset Is Hurting Your Executive Presence Exhibit A: Chamath Palihapitiya
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634: Why Being Afraid to Be Wrong Is Hurting Your Executive Presence and the Way You Come Back from a Mistake is Your STRONGEST Asset Is Hurting Your Executive Presence Exhibit A: Chamath Palihapitiya

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202613 min
  • Business & money

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if trying to always be right is actually weakening your executive presence? For high-performing leaders, admitting you made the wrong call can feel risky. You may worry that reversing a recommendation, acknowledging a flawed assumption, or admitting someone else saw the situation more clearly will cause people to qu...

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What if one of the beliefs that's weakening your executive presence is the belief that you must always be right when you speak? That's precisely what keeps you from speaking up when you should. Welcome back to Speak Up.

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Develop your executive presence, the number one rate business communication podcast, where we help high performing introvert leaders, including you social introverts turn your ideas into influence and improve business outcomes. Because being brilliant does not automatically make you influential.

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I am your host, Laura Camacho, your magical career accelerator, executive presence strategist, and part-time godmother. So it's really good news that executive presence does not mean that you're right about everything.

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