Professional way to say “I wrote it that way because you said too” or “I wrote it that way because that’s what you’ve called it in previous materials you’ve sent to leadership…” — run into this daily and just smile and say “no worries will update / change” but just gets annoying because I’m just doing what I’m told. I know if I changed it… I’d get the “why didn’t you just write what I said / previous example”… sorry pls fix rants

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This is daily life in consulting. Partner or Director makes you destroy your deck and decide they like the old way better and ask you why you changed it that way. Just gotta smile - if they start to play blame games then cya in comments and version history. Otherwise this is normal.

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“I made the changes to [xyz] that we discussed. After doing so, I think there’s a risk/concern/issue/watchout/etc. with [abc]. I’ve attached the original version as a reference with some additional tweaks that I think address your original feedback. Let me know which of these you think works best.”

-reminds them that they asked for these changes
-shows that you’re thinking through implications (I.e., ownership)
-proposes a better alternative

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*Requires double the work just to mitigate the bullshit

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"per your request"
"per your examples"

Change it and keep your mouth shut. Partner got more context from the client or other influencer. Yesterday is old, tomorrow never comes.

I learned it from watching you, dad!

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