Team smarts

Even the smart and knowledgeable thing that you are, you don’t know everything. Which isn’t a problem because one of the things you do know is to ask questions, to push and poke at a thing, to dig a little deeper and find a solution. All good.

There are however, two problems:

Assumptions – you or your colleagues assume that you do, in fact, know enough already for this particular situation. So you stop (or never start) asking questions, and they stop (or never start) adding their value.

Arrogance – you don’t listen. There are plenty of people all around who know more, can help, are trying to add their value, but come up against your busy-ness and self-reliance as you work things out on your own. Slow and stupid.

Better answers come from team smarts. 

Lead with questions, then listen to the answers.

Skippy strategy: Dumbness is the way to smartness

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