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If you're persuading people to do the wrong thing you're still proving how great and influential you are — if things go sideways you can still move to the next place /s

There are people whose entire careers are built on this!

Counterintuitively this is precisely why the people who care more about things being right than about winning need to work on their persuation skills: Otherwise the wrong thing will get done and guess who will have to deal with it.



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