Before
I take you all through true feel of Boringness,
Let me start with a short story “A turn of the screw”
There was an industrialist,
whose production line inexplicably breaks down, costing him millions per day.
He finally tracks down an expert who takes out a screwdriver, turns one screw,
and then - as the factory cranks back to life - presents a bill for £10,000.
Affronted,
the factory owner demands an itemized version. The expert is happy to oblige:
"For turning a screw: £1. For knowing which screw to turn: £9,999."
Author:
Oliver Burkeman in "The Guardian Weekend", 13 August 2011
Knowing which screw to turn is INFORMATION, and information is nothing but pure knowledge, there are 2 kinds of information’s Internal and External Information
Internal Information: - is the information which already
exists in your brains.
External Information: - is information which you don’t know
[not aware off ] and other people, books or internet might be carrying that information
So we should learn to gather more informationand not to speak or do until we have clear information and sense of
what we are talking or doing. When I say gathering information there are many
ways to gathering information. Yes Of course the first way is reading, reading
and more reading.., I know this line reminds you dirty dirty dirty… “Dirty
Picture” its fine now the second way is easy way around ohhhhh…, I know it’s
time for a short Break [story] I titled it “Great Asker” Please pronounce it, as
it is.
Ben Duffy, former head of the great advertising agency
Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn [BBDO]According to businessman Peter Hay,
Duffy “landed his largest accounts by putting himself into the client’s
position.” Once when Duffy was preparing for a meeting with
American Tobacco Company president Vincent Riggio, he listed the
questions he would ask if he were in Riggio’s shoes, along with the answers he
would give in response. According to Hay, “When the time for the meeting came,
Duffy presented his answers and waited, Riggio reached for a drawer and pulled
out a list of questions he had prepared. When he
glanced through them he realized that they had all been
answered. The two of them went to lunch to celebrate the deal.”
From The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and
Communication
To be a great asker one should know
what to ask and what not to, first let me speak about
What
Not To Ask: -
Never trigger a question which in return fetches you YES/NO answers and ends
your possibility of getting more information on your topic, try to avoid these
kind of Yes/No questions in any kind of
conversations, Then what to ASK
What
To Ask:-
Ask from Q6, and when I say Q6 I don’t mean Audi Q series [Q5 or Q7], it’s too
simple “Six Questions” and they are WHO,WHAT,WHERE,WHEN,WHY
and HOW, which leads you to explore
more and more and in detailed Information on our topic, when you frame a
question it should very simple and specific [simple in words and specific to
the topic] and part is how to ask ?
A good communicator should have vision and information on things they
believe in, and the crucial parts is communicating it to others and influence
them to follow them, the effective communicators need to know how to change minds
and to “change minds” we need Information/Knowledge, Information is power in
this INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ERA.
Thank you all for sparing time and reading my I-words,
I-Thoughts and for I in me
I means IDIOTIC and IDIOT ….. Let me end this as I started
with a short story ..
Believe
what you feel
On
this day, Morrie says that he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand,
facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student
to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for
more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.
Finally,
one student, a thin, quiet, dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wears
bulky, white fisherman sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her
eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials
where the model splashes into the pool..
For
a moment, I am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant,
her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and yanks her up harshly.
“Whoa!”
several students yell. Some clap. Morrie finally smiles. “You see”, he says to
the girl, “you closed your eyes, That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot
believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever
going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too
– even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling".
Source:
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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