Leadership Shift #184 : Stop Trying to Be the Smartest Person in the Room

You’re sitting in a room full of senior leaders. Someone asks a question, and you have a point of view. But before you speak, you start calculating: Is that smart enough? Am I missing something? Does everyone else already know this? So you wait. And then someone else says almost exactly what you were thinking. Or maybe you do speak, and the moment someone challenges your point, you start explaining, adding context, and giving three more reasons to prove you know what you’re talking about. Bec...