{"id":1604,"date":"2015-12-30T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2015-12-30T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:47:50","slug":"conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advice offered to Harvard Business School students (via <em>Quiet<\/em>, p. 47):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It drives me nuts when people do this in meetings. It&#8217;s dishonest and inauthentic. The fact that it&#8217;s being taught at the leading business schools fills me with sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to me with false conviction, and it will have little\u00a0effect except to\u00a0shatter my trust in you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice offered to Harvard Business School students (via Quiet, p. 47): &#8220;Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent.&#8221; It drives me nuts when people do this in meetings. It&#8217;s dishonest and inauthentic. The fact that it&#8217;s being taught at the leading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/conviction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conviction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}