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The #1 lesson I learned is you are a consultant. It's not your company and no one has to follow your advice. You probably aren't being told the whole story anyways.
Chief
Ain't that the truth. And yet we're the ones blamed by employees and managers.
Chief
A few in my 45 years. Early in my career, I learned the hard way to be more diplomatic when telling a VP that his directive to tell a man who complained of sexual harassment by another man to just "be a man" and suck it up was a terrible idea. This was before the Oncale decision, but I didn't want my company to be the SCOTUS case that decided that. That literally canceled the promotion I had already been told was mine.
A decade later I made the foolish mistake of requesting a raise in a start-up company that was paying tens of thousands more than market to the new hires, while I was being paid tens of thousands less. That destroyed any credibility I had with the COO, my boss.
Chief
Mine would be that avoiding difficult conversations almost always makes them harder. Problems rarely improve on their own.