A: Are you crazy? You don’t tell your boss he’s wrong! All that does is set up an argument and demonstrate your immaturity. And why the heck are you waiting to have this conversation in a review? Why aren’t you proactively creating the opportunity to have this conversation with your boss? Are you trying to demonstrate an inability to create something new? A preference for conversation over action? Spinelessness? Because that’s all you’re doing with this approach.
If you’re more worried about telling your boss he’s wrong than in taking the action necessary to get the job, one of two things is true:
1. Your boss is right: you are not ready for the next step.
2. Your relationship with your boss is not healthy.
In either case, the promotion is not your primary concern. Your primary concern should be figuring out why your perspective is so out of whack, and why you’re blaming your boss for your own blindness.
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