{"id":63,"date":"2008-04-22T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T17:03:00","slug":"how-to-say-no-without-saying-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/how-to-say-no-without-saying-no\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Say &quot;No&quot; (Without Saying &quot;No&quot;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i-leadonline.com\/images\/YesNoMaybe.jpg?w=736\" align=\"right\" alt=\"How to Say No\" \/>So, how do you say &#8220;No&#8221; when doing so feels like it could be, say, a career limiting move? Advice abounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Say-No-Respectfully\" target=\"_blank\">often over-simplifying<\/a> the stakes by not taking into account the complexities of saying &#8220;No&#8221; to someone like a boss or by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/183900\/How_to_Tell_Your_Boss_That_There_s_No_Free_Lunch\/\" target=\"_blank\">not giving specific enough strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/newsletter\/0804.htm\">recent newsletter article<\/a> I give some practical ways to say &#8220;No&#8221; without saying the letters N-O.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your chance to join the conversation: How do you handle situations when everything inside of you wants to say &#8220;No&#8221;, but there are other pressures to say Yes?<\/p>\n<p>Add a comment to this blog entry to share your insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, how do you say &#8220;No&#8221; when doing so feels like it could be, say, a career limiting move? Advice abounds, often over-simplifying the stakes by not taking into account the complexities of saying &#8220;No&#8221; to someone like a boss or by not giving specific enough strategies. In a recent newsletter article I give some&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/how-to-say-no-without-saying-no\/#more-63\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,17,32,36,44,6,35,33],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}