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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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pull a general kelly

Give a hostile account of something Democratic, untrue from beginning to end in its critical points. The account is usually adapted from fake news without conscious recognition that it is fake.

The term derives from one unfortunate White House press conference.
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I will steal her man.
Girls with either of these names are black.
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Kelly, if you are a Kelly by all means you're fantastic at making money. He can save it too. Kelly has awesome people skills.. for example he'll give you his only shirt on his back. Hell put a roof over your head. And good good in his belly! Every one wants to be his number one! But noone is up to his prefects standards. He's also known as the baby with the cheeks to go with the nickname. Kelly is always laughing with them and also at them too!! His laugh is contagious. With kellys money making skills he's a great collector of expensive things like things people don't have the money to buy , Kelly is there to help you out in any way that he can! He's very empathetic and sincere!!! You are a Rockstar all the way!!!!
Kelly can be defined as Master in his field!!! His dedication, discipline, and experience naturally allow him to be the best in his class!!! As well, the woman line up and fight over him 😤 😂 daily, including his Momma Bear 🤣 😂 🤗😚😇😁🤫😋
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