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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Interesting. I see lots of opinions formed by narrow world views here.
Arrogance is an important tool for me. My clients expect me to get things done for them. I foster that expectation. One of the most important ways to do so is to KNOW that there's nothing that they can send me that I can't get done. I'm very good at what I do. Especially when I'm dealing with East Coast clients, having the arrogance to say that explicitly is important. They expect me to be arrogant. It's the way they conduct business.
I am not, however, arrogant when I do business in rural areas or most of the West Coast states.
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Interesting. It seems like arrogance is a virtue in the New York/DC types, but less so among the agrarian/southern types.
I think arrogance is almost always destructive, especially when you're trying to lead.
*However* it seems like in the U.S., arrogance does get you ahead--there's a series of articles put out that talk about how Asian people don't get ahead even though they're well educated and unafraid of hard work. *Some* people attribute that to arrogance--the attitude that 'that work is beneath me..'
/Rambling.