QUOTATION 18
BILL WATKINS ON WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ASK MANAGEMENT FOR THEIR OPINION
Use this to remind you that people who provide answers go further and get more done than those who ask questions.
Bill Watkins (b. 1953), an American business executive and former CEO of Seagate Technology, speaking to Fortune Magazine in November 2006, put on record a truism that every manager should know and live by:
You never ask board members what they think. You tell them what you are going to do.
Bill Watkins
What Bill Watkins says applies to any manager or group that you are reporting to. If you ask people what they think, they will feel obliged to come up with something, no matter how daft, and then you will have to evaluate it and report back, ...
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