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Thanks Kimberly! From a LinkedIn post: For 25 years as CEO of WD-40 Company, I opened almost every meeting with the same line. '"Good day, I'm Garry Ridge. I'm the consciously incompetent, probably wrong, roughly right CEO of WD-40 Company, and I need all the help I can get." People assumed I was being humble for effect. Most never realized it was the most strategic sentence I said all year. That line was not modesty. It was an operating system. When you are a senior leader