If you do the wrong thing, admit and correct it.

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"Like boxing, it's about convincing your opponent you'll do one thing so you draw them into doing the wrong action at the wrong time, or in the wrong place and then take advantage of their error to hit them, " says Ms. Halls.

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Now, if you break it, you made a mistake, it's the wrong thing to do, but you own it and then you got to fix it and do something with it.

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What do you do if, like me, you commit an office etiquette no-no, and say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time?

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