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The Dumbest Person in the Room

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I personally asked 16 of them. To an outside observer, I suspect I might have appeared as the dumbest person in the room. In every classroom that I’m in as a student, I’m often the “dumbest" person in the room. Over the eight-hour class, all the students in the class combined asked about 20 questions.

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The Smartest Person in the Room

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Your ability to be the smartest person in the room is highly dependent on your willingness to be the dumbest person in the room. The other 90% of the time I often spend being the dumbest person in the room. A really great CEO is the dumbest person in the room during an executive team meeting.

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How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

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This is the situation that a good CEO strives for — to be the so-called “dumbestperson in the room. For example, let’s say you have an additional staff person you can assign to any of the three areas that report to you. It means you recruited well. Your direct report’s job is to manage this additional staff effectively.

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YOU are Your Own Superhero!

The Fearless Marketer

Perhaps this dumbest thing we can do is expect that things will be different, that things will improve. And I can blame and accuse just as well as the next person. They are a mess. We hear one message one day and the opposite the day after. Will there be more testing? Will we get another bailout? Will we get a baseball season?

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How to Tell Someone They're Totally Wrong

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Here’s some of the backlash: This is quite possibly the dumbest email I have ever received, as a consultant (is the point in my practice supposed to be to generate blatantly derivative, shoddy work quicker?), you are a left brain person, victor. If a crazy person you don’t respect does something stupid, most people could care less.

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How to Generate More Revenue Without Working More Hours with Tony Signorelli: Podcast #23

Consulting Success

Was there a direct correlation in terms of impact on your business or did it impact you personally in terms of fulfillment? It’s like all the other big consulting companies do, they get those consulting rates even though they’ve got somebody who’s a first-year person, and so you get a big a margin in there.

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What Makes an Article Authoritative?

The Clever Consultant

Find an expert on the topic and use that person as a source for your content. Typos are one of the quickest – and dumbest – ways to destroy your credibility as a writer. There will be times when you want to talk about something you know is important to your audience, but you’re lacking in expertise on the topic. Simplicity.

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