Comments on: The Attitude of Wisdom, from Management Advice: Which 90% is crap? http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/05/16/the-attitude-of-wisdom Nirav Mehta on life, technology and future Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nirav http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/05/16/the-attitude-of-wisdom/comment-page-1#comment-132233 Nirav Mon, 19 May 2008 08:54:15 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/05/16/the-attitude-of-wisdom/#comment-132233 Come to think of it, any conviction is a real conviction until you get a new conviction. So in essence everything is temporary. I think Andy did not mean to "try things out without thinking much", but more to "don't get stuck in thinking that there is no action". Come to think of it, any conviction is a real conviction until you get a new conviction. So in essence everything is temporary. I think Andy did not mean to “try things out without thinking much”, but more to “don’t get stuck in thinking that there is no action”.

]]> By: Sujeet Bambawale http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/05/16/the-attitude-of-wisdom/comment-page-1#comment-132227 Sujeet Bambawale Fri, 16 May 2008 18:29:26 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/05/16/the-attitude-of-wisdom/#comment-132227 "act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly." With all due respect to Andy, I disagree. Its not always as easy and inexpensive (money, resource, time-wise) to correct course quickly without consequence. Moreover, doing this more than a few times wouldn't really curry conviction with regards to smart leadership capabilities. “act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.”

With all due respect to Andy, I disagree.

Its not always as easy and inexpensive (money, resource, time-wise) to correct course quickly without consequence.

Moreover, doing this more than a few times wouldn’t really curry conviction with regards to smart leadership capabilities.

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