Being Right: Career-Limiting Belief #2

The first step in exploding limiting belief #2 is to understand that while new employees or new individual contributors are paid to be right, technical managers, successful career engineers, and their successful team members and colleagues, are paid to be effective. The organization's management only wants a successful outcome to be achieved. Being effective is a better metric to achieving success than being right. Adding this secret to the map shifts the focus of attention to finding the best in all of the ideas that contribute to the solution. Enacting curiosity can tap into the best from everyone. The shift of focus toward curiosity will, in turn, generate new and positive emotional and physiological states. By adding the Gem of Wisdom #2 to the Map of the World, one can invariably generate new behaviors that show the wisdom in relying on the collective knowledge of the entire team.