Category: Trigger Questions
Does Your Ambivalence Finally Make You Certain?
Trigger Question #159: Once upon a time, people believed that the earth is flat. Then cameras flew into space and proved that the earth...
Do You Want ‘Better’ or Do You Want ‘Fix’?
Trigger Question #158? In my experience, business leaders and managers are quick to want ‘better’. Yet when I ask why they want ‘better’, they...
Are You Unreasonable Without Reason?
Trigger Question #157: Pay attention, because I am going to help you spot unreasonable people at work....
Do You Have One Rule to Rule Them All?
Trigger Question #156: Do you know the story of Paul O’Neill and Alcoa? If so, I’m sorry for you, because I am still...
Do You Suffer Fools Madly or Gladly?
Trigger Question #155: Time was when I thought “he doesn’t suffer fools gladly” was a compliment. But that was before I became a...
Are You Easy To Remember or Easy To Forget?
Trigger Question #154: Way back in the mid-1980s, I swapped my necktie for bow tie. Bow ties were so weird back then… what...
Do You Assume Without Assuming?
Trigger Question #153: You should never assume without assuming. Actually, I’m not sure that it is even possible to assume without assuming....
Do You Ask for Feedback or Wait for Backlash?
Trigger Question #152: I am always bemused… Please note that I am bemused, not amused. This topic is no laughing matter....
Do You Punish Better Than You Praise?
Trigger Question #151: Does punishment work better than praise? Is the threat of punishment an effective deterrent? Does physical punishment (for example, being...
Do You Mistake the Means for the Goal?
Trigger Question #150: Another day, another app. A new day, a new structure. Tomorrow, a modified get-things-done routine. And so on and so...
How Sensible Is Your Common Sense?
Trigger Question #149: Let’s admit it. We like to say that we have common sense and that we practice common sense. After all,...
Are Your Strengths More Important Than Our Strengths?
Trigger Question #148: Once upon a time, your friends wanted you on their team because you were bigger and faster. Or your mother...