Category: Trigger Questions
Do You Say We or Do You Say I?
Trigger Question #135: By now you’ve surely heard about the (improbable) wisdom of crowds. But have you heard of the anonymity of mobs?...
Do You Team Up With Your Opposite?
Trigger Question #134: Let’s begin with a nursery rhyme, this one from the mid-16th century, if not earlier:...
Do You Scope With a Microscope or a Telescope?
Trigger Question #133: Most of the time, you cruise along in your role as manager until something goes wrong. Then you zoom in....
Do You Shout “Nonsense!” or Do You Ask Why?
Trigger Question #132: If something makes little sense, do you immediately assume it is nonsense? If so, don’t....
Are You Happy Now?
Trigger Question #131: Amazing are the people who don’t procrastinate. The ones who don’t put off until tomorrow that which they should really...
Will You Lie if Asked Whether You Lied?
Trigger Question #130: Sadly, we are growing too used to political lies. Yes, politicians have always had an unseemly casual relationship with Truth....
What Thing Undone Has You Hot and Bothered?
Trigger Question #129: If you don’t do what you committed to do, you will feel hot and bothered. And the longer you put it...
Did You Slow Down Enough Not To Break Things?
Trigger Question #125: I now know why I dislike the “move fast and break things” mentality. I dislike it because I used to...
Do You Count the Ways It Could Go Wrong?
Trigger Question #123: One reason we plan is to help future things go right instead of wrong. So we agonize over why we do...
Do You See the Sense in Nonsense?
Trigger Question #121: Do you have nonsense at work? Of course you have! Nonsense is always at work. But what is nonsense?...
Did You Out-Think or Out-Execute?
Trigger Question #120: How many moves ahead can a chess master see? Some believe chess masters calculate 25-30 moves deep. A former world chess...