“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.”
“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.” This is a common saying at Toyota, where hierarchical, authority-based leadership is eschewed in favor of responsibility-based leadership. Which is to say that people at the top of the corporate food-chain don’t drive all the decisions just because they sit [...]
Question asking as a problem solving method
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 January, 2009 to the comment subset
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My five year plan: ask everyone about their five year plans
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 12 December, 2008 to the comment subset
I’m no recruiting specialist, but as I see it the often asked “where do you see yourself in five years” question, merely allows a recruiter to gauge that you have intentions, any intentions, beyond I guess, “stapling reports together” for the rest of your work life.
This because there can be no real answer to such [...]
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Top 10 Design Questions: Student Edition
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 23 February, 2008 to the design and art subset
Top 10 Design Questions: Student Edition
Jason A. Tselentis invites Speak Up readers to answer ten questions he is often asked by design students.
3. Is it true that I have to know Quark?
I started learning web design in 1997 and while some people were telling me Quark was passe, and of no use to web designers, [...]
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