WWWWW&H
Why? What? Where? When? Who? and How?
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A collection of better questions to get better answers.
WWWWW&H
“What”, “where”, “when” and “who” are factual questions.
‘Why’ is asking for an explanation.
“How” is for procedures, processes and methods.
Are you treating the symptom or the disease?
Would I let this person babysit my kids?
Andrew Wilkinson’s heuristic to hiring trustworthy people
When you know how generalists and specialists fit into the stage of a company’s growth, you can better plan for whether you want to develop a generalist or a specialist skill set. What stage is the company you’re at right now? If you want to stay there, do you need to focus on going deep with a specialist skill set or go broader by picking up more ... See more
Barrett Brooks • Generalist vs Specialist: There's No Right Answer for Your Career - Barrett Brooks
“WHO, not how”. Instead of facing a problem and thinking, “HOW can I solve this?” Ask yourself, “WHO do I know that can solve this?”
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Do I really have to solve everything by myself?
What’s the next step in entrepreneurship? or after the “startup” mode of business? I fear I am having trouble even phrasing the question correctly because I don’t have the words yet.
what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
How can I figure something out - a decision-making guide
Phrases to useWhat makes you ask?What about ____ is important to you?How can I help make this better for us?How would you like me to proceed?What is it that brought us into this situation?How can we solve the problem?What’s the objective / What are we trying to accomplish here?How am I supposed to do that?