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Episode 35: How To Lead Effectively with Bestselling Author Captain David Marquet

The Thinking Leader

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The Power of Binary Questions

Every grounding and collision that the submarine force ever had revealed that somebody on the crew knew, or like knew sounds too deterministic, but had a sense that things were amiss. Then the ship was standing in the danger, but either didn't speak up because, well, like I must be wrong. Or maybe they said it, but they didn't really have the language. So we think, yeah, power grade. We're programmed to ask binary questions. Is it safe? Will it work? Are you sure? are you sure? Now, in a culture of binary questions, I've just set a very high threshold for when it's not safe, and I'm going to speak

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