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Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.

A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.

When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.

Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.
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Arr Kelly

The act of peeing on a teenage girl while in full pirate costume
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ethan kelly

ethan kelly is horrible at 8 ball and is a handyman.
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Kelly

Kelly is the second name of many inbreds. If you know one, you might also notice that they're ugly as fuck. I tend to stray from Kelly's but sometimes being beside them makes me feel more confident and handsome.
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Kelly moment

Oh sorry I put the kids in the oven, I must have had a 'Kelly moment'.
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Kelly MissesVlog

She is german YouTuber who became famous for responding to comments from her viewers in her videos. She also released a Song called “Clickbait”. Thtats also the reason why many of her fans call her a ‘Clickbait Queen’.
And she loves unicorns.
A: Have you seen Kelly MissesVlog’s newest video?
B: Yes, its (insert opinion here) here!
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Matthew kelly

Matthew Kelly is a very dumb Asian boy who is a great at rapping. Matthew Kelly has just released his new album on Spotify. He likes to watch prawns in class, especially religion
Look it's Matthew Kelly, such a great rapper.
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