On the chin
Partnerships, all partnerships, are based on trust.
Trust that you’ll do what you say you’re going to do. Trust that you won’t stiff me over things I…
You do enough stuff, things are likely to fall short once in a while. And when that happens, folk are likely to complain. Assuming you already did whatever you could to stop the bad things happen, what matters now is how you handle the complaints.
Option one: hide; obfuscate; pass the blame or reflect it back on the complainer; get defensive or evasive or angry; and you can always find a way to wriggle out from under it.
Option two: own it; deal with it; take it on the chin, apologise, and make it right.
We all know which kind of organisation we like to deal with. We all know which kind wins the long game. We all know which we’ll call back next time around.
We all know the right thing to do.
Skippy strategy: Behave like one of the good guys and you are one of the good guys.
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