{"id":4494,"date":"2019-10-12T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2019-10-12T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:17:31","slug":"whats-your-favorite-bs-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Favorite BS Excuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4496\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4496\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4496 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-9.25.24-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-9.25.24-AM.png 684w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-9.25.24-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-9.25.24-AM-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it just me?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people I&#8217;ve met in business are honest, while a handful can&#8217;t stop their bulls&#8211;t.<\/p>\n<p>How many BS excuses have you heard? What&#8217;s your favorite? These are a few of mine:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m VERY busy<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m traveling nonstop<\/li>\n<li>Check back with me in a month<\/li>\n<li>I never saw your email<\/li>\n<li>Let me run it by my team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instead, why not just say &#8220;I&#8217;m not interested?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People on the receiving end of BS excuses know they are just that, because they have heard them all before.<\/p>\n<p>In my book, excuse givers get two strikes (the first might be legit), and then they are out! And I&#8217;ll share my experience with any colleague who asks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take honesty over crappy excuses any day, because honesty builds trust. And if you can&#8217;t trust someone to initially tell you the truth, you probably don&#8217;t want to do business with them.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Brooks Kimmel is the Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\">Trust Across America-Trust Around the World.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2019, Next Decade, Inc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4494&title=What&#8217;s Your Favorite BS Excuse?\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=What&#8217;s Your Favorite BS Excuse? &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4494\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4494&title=What&#8217;s Your Favorite BS Excuse?\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t trust someone to initially tell you the truth, you probably don&#8217;t want to do business with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450,45,404,420],"tags":[122,15,3,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}