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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4421680, member: 44"] In the first couple of weeks of my career I was in my office late when a boss from a different group in the company walked into my office and said “I want you to sit in on a phone call.” I thought it would be a learning experience only, you know, sit quietly listen and learn, but when I walked through the door he introduced me to the participants, who were a half dozen well known heavy hitters in my industry, as “our expert” in the subject matter. I am thinking to myself, “oh crap, oh crap, oh crap“ and listened, only half paying attention as I was trying to figure out how the heck I was going to respond to their inevitable question. I decided that, no matter what the question is, I could always respond “well that’s an interesting question, I’ll get back to you on it” and then figure out the answer before I spoke to them next. But as I listen to the fact pattern I realized it was some thing I had actually already worked on in my two weeks, utterly unknown to the guy who brought me in. So when they finished running through all the facts and asked me my thoughts, I gave a long running detailed answer to the question. Since I had been billed as “an expert“ and acted like one everybody accepted it and thanked me for my time and got off the call. The guy who had brought me in on the call and billed me as an expert, looked flummoxed and said “CL, please tell me you weren’t making that up as you went along”. I replied “not as far as you know” with a big smile on my face. And that was how I became known as an industry expert with less than two weeks of experience. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. [/QUOTE]

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