I was searching through unfinished blogs the other day and found one to share with you. It’s about how attempts to be helpful can backfire in a big way.

It’s not unusual for a conversation about authenticity to come up in our workshops on trusted advisorship and trust-based selling—in the face of encouragement to be real, questions arise like, “How much is too much?” “Can I really be myself? Should I?

Last week I wrote about one of the shortest and most powerful words in the English language (only not in a good way), which is “but.” This week, I’m adding two more to the list.