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What helped you in your career being bold,upfront or being politically correct?

Any advice will be appreciated
I am a young leadet looking for guidance,

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None of those three are mutually exclusive.

You need to be bold about what you want to do or pursue. You should be upfront , as everyone appreciates transparency. But you must have solid communication and relationship skills to be able to relay the message to others. In business context , you need to be professional (“politically correct “ has negative connotations and is usually used derisively).

Because everyone doesn’t have the same goals, motivations or metrics. So if you want to be successful in corporate world and influence others, you must be capable of building trust and convince others that your bold ideas are worth their time.

It’s extremely easy to come off as arrogant when you think you are being bold and arrogant. So understand the context, understand who you are trying to influence and add humility , mutual respect to your repertoire

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I was called into a meeting at McK in 2020 where they asked all the White men on the call to apologize for their "White privilege", more precisely stated to "explain unfair advantages you have had in life due to being a White man"

I told everyone that I didn't think I had any "White privilege" because I was one generation separated from extreme poverty in Northern Ireland

I don't think that benefited me at all even though it was correct

A few months later I got pushed out by ctl, qualitative justifications given only (no supporting examples) with an exiting email telling me that I would not be given alumni status (11.5 month exit vs 12 months required)

I'm not sure that that was the reason, but not every environment is such that you can actually disagree with people when they are wrong and it's important to know what environment you're in

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