You're Right. So What?

Why do you think being correct wins arguments?

You show up with facts. Data. The right process. The proper methodology. You follow every protocol, dot every i, cross every t. You're absolutely, demonstrably, unquestionably right.

And nobody cares.

That's not leadership failure—that's leadership confusion. You think correctness is currency. It's not. Influence is currency.

Stop Hiding Behind "Right"

Here's what's actually happening: You're using correctness as an excuse to avoid the messy work of persuasion. Being right feels clean. Being convincing feels dirty.

When your perfectly logical proposal gets ignored, you tell yourself they "just don't get it." When your team resists your obviously superior approach, you blame their "inability to see the big picture."

That's not their failure. That's yours.

You're choosing intellectual purity over practical results. You'd rather be right than be effective. And you're telling yourself that makes you principled when it actually makes you irrelevant.

Master Influence, Not Accuracy

The best leaders aren't the most correct—they're the most convincing. They understand that people don't change because of facts. They change because of feelings. Because of stories. Because of trust.

Sometimes the "wrong" behaviour gets the correct result. Sometimes breaking the rules creates better outcomes than following them. Sometimes the less accurate explanation is the one that actually moves people to action.

You can be perfectly correct and perfectly ignored. Or you can be approximately right and actually influential.

Choose Real Integrity Over Integrity Theatre

Stop performing correctness for an audience that isn't scoring your accuracy.

Absolute integrity isn't about being flawlessly right. It's about being genuinely effective at creating the change you believe in. If being slightly less precise gets you significantly more buy-in, that's not compromise—that's serving your actual purpose.

The question isn't whether you're correct. The question is whether you're moving people toward something better.

There's a difference between sacrificing your values and adapting your delivery. One destroys your integrity. The other fulfils it.