15Nov/096
To learn to say no !
I guess one of the very important things that I should learn to do in the coming days is the ability to say no gracefully. You can say that I am a yes man, in fact I was quite proud of it until recently. Being an yes man has been quite a positive thing for me so far, until I continuously ended up hurting my plans by saying yes. And the first time I said a NO, even I felt it kind of being rude and the other person ended up taking it personal. I think it will take me some time to not to be guilty about it. So just in case I am saying No to you next time, its not anything personal, but its just that I have something else more important to do. I sincerely do hope you would understand.
November 16th, 2009
Yes-man-turns-no-man. Welcome, again!
November 16th, 2009
The art of saying ‘ NO’ is a must in a corporate world. I had the same feeling initially and used to take all that was thrown at me , the result of which was a complete burnout . I had to take some effort in telling ‘No’. I hope you master this soon.
November 21st, 2009
@vegpuff: Thanks
@Sharad: I hope too, I feel safe that I am not alone !
January 10th, 2010
Not sure if I’m in the say NO to NO team..
I don’t want to start a war here, but two facts
1. Yahoo could’ve bought Google, but it said NO..
2. Yahoo could’ve bought DoubleClick, but it said NO and Google bought it.
Probably, we need to take care even when saying no
January 10th, 2010
Oh yeah, also add facebook to the list..
So, ideally it is all about saying the right NO and right YES.. The question I want to pose here is, how do we figure whether what we are saying are YES or NO unless we say YES and burn our fingers for the first time??
January 16th, 2010
totally agree with u .. at times i feel so !