by Paul Quinn | Jun 19, 2026 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Opportunities, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Relationships
What happens when we trust our intuition and, despite obstacles, keep pursuing what it calls us to do? In my conversation with entrepreneur Sterling Lentz we explore that question—and the one “big ask” that carried him 8,000 miles from home. Sterling is...
by Paul Quinn | May 21, 2026 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Personal Development
Arriving in Denver one spring day, I wheeled my suitcase to the cabstand. The fare to my hotel, I learned, would be $70, so I opted to save $30 and take a multi-passenger van instead, the kind that stops at each passenger’s hotel. A purely frugal decision,...
by Paul Quinn | Apr 9, 2026 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills
There are reasonable creative projects … and then there are the ones that grow ten times their size and cause their cowering creators to ask, “What have we wrought?!” The Big Ask audiobook began with the innocent question: “Hey – what if...
by Paul Quinn | Feb 7, 2025 | Asking - Business, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Workplace Etiquette
When it comes to making requests, we’re most persuasive face to face. Even when asking something of someone we don’t know, we’re 34 times more likely to get a yes in person than by email (phone calls are the next most persuasive). Trouble is, in the worlds...
by Paul Quinn | Oct 10, 2024 | Asking - Business, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills
In an episode of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy, Lucy wants her husband, Ricky, to ask his boss. Mr. Littlefield, for a raise. Ricky dreads the idea. Lucy invites him to rehearse his “ask” with her, as if she were his boss. In the role play, the reluctant...
by Paul Quinn | Mar 27, 2024 | Asking - Business, Asking - Leadership
Shortly after 5:00 p.m. on March 27, 1977, at Tenerife’s Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary Islands, Dutch KLM flight 4805 sped across a densely foggy runway moments from lifting off when it rammed into Pan Am flight 1736 taxiing toward it. All 248 KLM passengers...
