1st year post-mba realizing a meaningful part of the job is saying you were wrong without actually admitting fault or saying that you’re wrong lol. My go-to euphemisms enclosed. Let me know yours :)

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I loved this one from a partner I worked with: "my thinking on this has evolved"

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Here’s my go-to language:
1. It’s come to my attention
2. Upon further review
3. When you look at it through this lens
4. With this added context
5. I’ve learned

I’m looking to add to this dictionary so to speak so please share lol and I’d add it’s not really about being “wrong" (as in #s in a model are wrong) but letting the team or client know that an initial hypothesis was off-base while maintaining their confidence (re: not clueing them in to all of my knowledge being from google or expert interviews and not my well-established 1st hand knowledge of the problem haha)

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« I think you brought a very interesting perspective, and it’d be good to build further on that"

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This is one of my pet peeves. You try to pull this at amzn you prolly get face kicked in by bezos....

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