Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.
Interpretation
Asking for help is often more effective than simply giving orders.
This quote emphasizes the importance of collaboration and seeking assistance from others instead of taking a purely authoritative approach. It suggests that engaging others through requests for help can lead to better outcomes and foster a more cooperative environment, regardless of the complexity of the task at hand.
In practice
During a team meeting, you could reference this quote to encourage members to share their ideas.
Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Needless to say, it was the greatest of privileges to serve with the selfless men and women - Iraqi and American and those of our coalition partners, civilian as well as military - who did the hard, dangerous work of the surge. There seldom was an easy period; each day was tough.
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.
I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.
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