A time when I recommended a different path to something recommended by my boss

 One day,my professor and I, had finished working on a scientific paper that was due for submission to a journal.  The journal's publication was coming early and if we were to miss that publication we were going to wait  for another year before the next issue. This was going to affect our performance appraisal data negatively. The Professor who was my boss too then directed that I send the script to that journal. 

 However, upon my own investigations it turned out that the journal had a lower profile and citation index than I had expected. I initially sought to drive this point to my boss that we needed to change the journal but he would have none of it. He insisted that we send the paper for publication to the same journal. With due respect, I then sought an audience with him at his office and I explained how the low profiled journal was also going to impact negatively on our work. I recommended a better journal even-though it was to publish 2 months later than the first journal. My boss analysed my recommendation and for a while kept quiet. I also kept quiet. He was now busy comparing the two journals. Then he stood up, smiling and shook my hand and said 'yes you are right!'. We both laughed and were happy that we had reached an agreement at last

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