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Why five minutes late will sabotage your leadership

Why five minutes late will sabotage your leadership

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Why five minutes late will sabotage your leadership

- How often do you send the text, sorry, be there in a few. I'm on my way, is actually a default text reply on the iPhone. So we know you're not the only one who's running late. It happens to everyone, but consistently being late, can undermine your long-term leadership. The same is true for other seemingly small things like missing an internal deadline and holding up a project, forgetting a small promise, like promising to proof a peers presentation, and not responding to emails or returning phone calls. These mistakes might not seem like a big deal in the moment, but others form an opinion of us based on a combination of a lot of small actions, you probably have a good idea of where you struggle on these smaller things. For me, I'm always on time to the minute, but I am a terrible speller. While I care deeply about what I write, I started to see that the spelling and grammar errors made it look like I didn't care, or…

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