How Exaggeration Is a Risk to Your Leadership Credibility

As a leader you must certainly project optimism. But when you cross the line into exaggeration or hyperbole, your leadership is facing significant risks.

A leader in my orbit once described a very average meeting we had been in as “Quite possibly our best meeting ever!”

The statement was so over-the-top, and so removed from any sense of reality, that he took a serious credibility hit.

How many of the following statements, or statements like them, have you used?

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