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Yeah, Marie. memory. Today is Q&A Tuesday and today's question comes from Alicia and Alicia writes

Dear dear Marie my boss has the mentality of do whatever it takes to get ahead in business

even if it means being dishonest or using severe manipulation.

Every time I bring this up to friends or colleagues, they all tell me that the most successful

CEOs are ruthless and completely cutthroat, for example Steve

Jobs and Bill Gates, and that this behavior is basically necessary.

I hate that and it breaks my heart. How does one create success as a sweetheart? X-O-X-O-X-O-Lisha.

Alicia, I love this question. Yes, of course, we've all heard stories about Bill Gates and the late

great Steve Jobs and so many others who've been painted sometimes as super

rich genius jerks, but I gotta tell you thinking that that's just the way it is or that

it has to be is so dangerous. Because if some part of you believes that in order to be successful you have to check your integrity

at the door, you're going to severely limit yourself and what you're capable of achieving.

Oh, whoa, whoa, yeah, you can't come in here with all those morals and integrity.

I can't, why not?

It's policy, sweetheart.

Take a ticket.

You know what? I'm good. I'm not going to come in. I'll just stay mediocre and hang on to my morals.

Yeah you do that to its. I know most people think that's the way it works, but it's not true.

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