Big Ask Blog
Emergency rooms are not safe places to make assumptions. That's why nurses who are unafraid to ask questions can significantly improve the health outcomes for their patients. Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN, is an emergency department nurse at Northwestern Memorial...
In this article we explore my interviewee's life-changing ask, her thoughts on Indian women's attitudes about asking, and how she views asking differently at work and home. Adele Nandan is founder and chief experience officer of The JoYOUs Journey, a full-service...
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 National...
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 said,...
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...
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)...
"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 for the truth. Because once it's revealed...
Virginia Muzquiz, The Referral Diva®, founder and Chief Connection Officer at Master Connectors, Inc., has more than two decades of experience generating business by referral. She has helped thousands of business owners connect with networks that provide them with the...
Allan Biggar, a former managing director (London) of the global public relations and communications PR firm Burson-Marsteller who became chairman of its global corporate and financial practice, is CEO of Allan Biggar & Company Limited, a business strategy and...
At 19, after a post-high school "gap year" of jobs digging ditches in the Arizona desert and folding underwear, I realized that I'd better go to college or the gap year might become a gap life. I applied to several colleges, all of which turned me down for the same...