Approaching my CEO about a bad decision of his
DanielBMarkham: First, and most importantly, you could be wrong. Unless you really believe that, don't do anything.Second, learn from the politicians. They never make mistakes: you have to get rid of the subject of the sentence: it's not "you made mistakes" it's "mistakes were made" Never have a conversation with somebody about what "they" did. But always have conversations about "what happened" This is another point that if you don't get, be silent.Finally, go with principles and data, not personalities and opinions. If you admit you might be wrong, and perhaps mistakes were made, the logical next step is to ask to collect data on a couple of theories. Who knows what the data might show? The real question is not who is right or wrong, it's whether you want to collect more data from a different hypothesis. After all, we're all open-minded, right?