You are polite. Polite is nice. Polite is pleasant. Polite is a hazard to success.
You often yield in conversations. You tend to tolerate people when they are lending excuses and questions instead of solutions. When you are the leader, you must control the conversation at meetings. If you are interrupted, stop the conversation and bring focus back onto the topic on the agenda.
If you allow others to dictate the conversation in a meeting, you are wasting the time of everyone in attendance.
You can probably find a way to be blunt without losing your manners.
Good Luck.
