Lately I've been
agonizing over the following scenario:
On the one hand, ever since LinkedIn introduced Skill Endorsements, I can’t
help but feel fantastic whenever kind people exhibit their generosity by taking
the time, trouble, and interest to endorse various aspects of my work. (Thank
you, thank you, everyone.) But
here’s my dilemma: thus far I have declined to participate in endorsing others
myself for fear of making it look as if I’m playing favourites. (American
readers, please don’t be put off by my Canadian inclusion of the letter ‘u’ in
the preceding word!)
Specifically,
my reason for avoiding endorsements is that, as a business journalist, in most
circumstances I consider it part of my responsibility and journalistic
integrity to remain relatively objective for my readers in both my writing and
my deportment. I also try hard to maintain enough diplomacy and positive regard
for all my contacts to enable me to circulate freely within the industry and
its supply chain to gather news and information as widely as possible, again
for the sake of my readers.
Am I doing the right thing?
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