by Paul Quinn | May 24, 2022 | Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Travel
To Keiran Meeke’s way of thinking, tourists and travelers are not the same. Tourists are spectators. But travelers, he says, engage and learn from people. And that can be transformative. It can even give you better photos, a private viewing of the Georgian...
by Paul Quinn | May 17, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Social Impact, Asking - Workplace
A few years ago, after I gave a talk at Northeastern Illinois University on the subject of asking as a life skill, a student of Asian descent raised his hand and asked if I had any stories in my book from Asian people (at the time I didn’t). When I said no, he...
by Paul Quinn | May 16, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Workplace
It sounds like a riddle: How do you know to ask for important information when you don’t know there’s important information to ask for? Most of us trust that the information we’ll need to navigate a new situation will be helpfully volunteered if it’s not obvious...
by Paul Quinn | May 9, 2022 | Asking - Social Impact, Asking - Workplace
How do the questions we ask reveal our biases and create, often unintentionally, disharmony and distance? I explored this topic with Rocki Howard, Chief People and Equity Officer at The Mom Project, an organization that connects skilled professional women (and men)...
by Paul Quinn | May 4, 2022 | Asking - Relationships
“Truth isn’t always beauty,” wrote Nadine Gordimer, “but the hunger for it is.” To be sure, it’s a hunger we’re not always willing to satisfy, nor even nibble at. It takes courage—sometimes extraordinary amounts of it—to ask...
