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.”
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.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Get the Kelly’s Rule of Inquirymug. In tennis, this rule comes into play when you're leading by just one game and want to avoid the risk of losing. Under this rule, you play just one final game, with no possibility of losing. The result will either be a win or a tie. var: "Super Alejandro" rule: You're up by more than one game and can only win.
Momentum changed and I won 4 in a row to get within one game, but my opponent invoked Alejandro Rules and it ended in a tie.
by nawhea March 10, 2025
Get the Alejandro Rulesmug. It’s Sunday. I haven’t practiced the Rubiks Cube since Wednesday. I sit down and think: How the hell do I do this thing? Then I realize I haven’t practiced in 72 hours. I think ‘Oh... Rule of 72.’
by Irreduzibel November 11, 2018
Get the Rule of 72mug. by mothinflame123 November 18, 2018
Get the Rule C Corollarymug. Person 1: “Did you know there’s NSFW art of butterflies?”
Person 2: “Of course there is… Rule 34 Lite.”
Person 2: “Of course there is… Rule 34 Lite.”
by Fireline Coyote September 3, 2022
Get the Rule 34 Litemug. The 20 day time period when a girl likes a boy. After 20 days the girl loses feelings and moves on. This occurs until she finds a man
Jules has a 20 day rule when she snaps boys after 20 she is on to another boy and loses feeling for the first one.
by Caseycizikasishot October 13, 2019
Get the 20 day rulemug. a)rules put in place to protect people who can't drive.
b) Rules put in place to annoy people who can drive
b) Rules put in place to annoy people who can drive
by Da Docta July 18, 2003
Get the road rulesmug.