THREE QUESTIONS LEADERS SHOULD AVOID

Questions can engage and motivate people, but they can also discourage them by seeming confrontational. To engage employees (not scare them), reframe these questions:

What's the problem? Rather than fixating on problems and weaknesses, use positive questions geared toward leveraging strengths and opportunities and achieving goals: What are we doing well, and how might we build upon that?
Whose fault is it? This focuses on finding a scapegoat when there is likely plenty of blame to go around. To identify weak links without focusing too much on blame, ask: How can we work together to shore up any weaknesses?
Haven't we tried this already? This is important to ask, but the wrong tone makes it sound condescending and defeatist. It doesn’t recognize that failure could have been due to bad timing, not the idea itself. Ask: If we tried this now, what would be different – and how might it change the results?

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Go Global Act Local - one of the commonly used terms probably all of us have come across. Yes, many will vote for it. But is it really as effective as we know? I have my personal observations on this. In this hyper-connected world, a brand somehow goes global even if you don't want to. It is because someone somewhere looking for a product that exactly matches their needs. And we have social channels, search engines, classified ad sites, and so on. So, a brand has every potential to spread like anything. Now, what that brand really stands for is a different discussion all together and I'm not going into that. I think, products are already global from the very date of its production. Then why do you act like a local brand while operating in a foreign market? In many situations, I have seen, customers prefer certain products for not being local. So, why pushing that? Moreover, people these days are smarter than ever before. They can tell why a brand desperately tries to ac

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