CTO, Developer, Sysadmin, Network Admin, currently using Clarion on Windows, Drupal for websites, and picking up Ansible for sysadminning. Yes, I wear many hats, why do you ask?
Location
Marietta, Ga
Education
Asbury College, BA in Bible with Computer Science minor
Work
CTO/Developer/Sysadmin/Network Admin at Accelerated Design, Inc
On #4, yes, if you're confident in your idea, speak it confidently. But don't get in the habit of speaking confidently no matter what the idea is. In the short run, yes, people will respond to your confidence. In the long run, if you have a history of speaking confidently about things that turn out to not be so, or that don't deserve that level of confidence that you gave them, people will lose confidence in you, because they've learned that the confidence with which you speak doesn't actually measure up to the confidence that what you're saying deserves.
This requires learning to objectively evaluate your own ideas for how much confidence they deserve. It's a tough balance to find, and you'll make mistakes at this, but you'll learn. And you'll probably also irritate those who make always speaking confidently part of their own tactics (e.g. some members of Sales and Marketing).
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On #4, yes, if you're confident in your idea, speak it confidently. But don't get in the habit of speaking confidently no matter what the idea is. In the short run, yes, people will respond to your confidence. In the long run, if you have a history of speaking confidently about things that turn out to not be so, or that don't deserve that level of confidence that you gave them, people will lose confidence in you, because they've learned that the confidence with which you speak doesn't actually measure up to the confidence that what you're saying deserves.
This requires learning to objectively evaluate your own ideas for how much confidence they deserve. It's a tough balance to find, and you'll make mistakes at this, but you'll learn. And you'll probably also irritate those who make always speaking confidently part of their own tactics (e.g. some members of Sales and Marketing).