How can etiquette help me when I've made a really bad mistake in business?
We all make bad mistakes in business. I've made them, we've all made them, and sometimes there's just no way to avoid making them. People lose money for their companies, they buy products that don't sell if they're wholesaling them, so we've all made mistakes. Therefore It's really ideal to use your etiquette to work and make sure that you have good communication with your senior executives as it's one of the problems in American business today, that no one is willing to make a decision. People are slow to make decisions today because they don't want to be the fall guy for having made that decision, so decisions today seem to be made in a group. They come from senior management, but after going through many levels. So you just have to sometime bite the bullet and admit that you've made a mistake. Everybody knows you've made a mistake and it is embarrassing, but rather than change jobs, try and create some higher levels of communication so that it doesn't happen again. If you've got a good manager or a good boss, they'll help you do that, and so your etiquette will help you when you've made a mistake in business.