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By Dawn Rosenberg McKay, About.com Guide to Career Planning since 1997

An Offer You Can't Refuse ... Or Can You?

Monday June 30, 2008
Many people believe that turning down an assignment from their boss would be career suicide. It would be much worse, though, to take on a project you can't complete. While you shouldn't say no to your boss on a whim, sometimes you are left with no other option. Find out what your boss should consider acceptable reasons for saying no to an assignment, and which ones will just seem like poor excuses.

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August 22, 2006 at 7:36 am
(1) Suzanne Thomas says:

I found the article very helpful in learning how to say no to your boss.

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