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. The changing of gameboard rules like adding another game board piece that doesn't normally belong there to create I different game with a different experience.
When my friend and I get board of the same board game we try to rule swap it with another board game to have more fun!
by LaDodgers360 June 12, 2016
Get the rule swapmug. A person's a creep if the age difference between them and their date is greater than half the eldest's current age, plus 7. For example, if a guy is 30, the youngest person he can date without being considered a creep is 15+7=22; younger than that, society looks at the couple sideways.
Dude, you're 45 and dating a 20 year-old? You're a creep!!!! Creep rule is half-your age + 7, my friend. You should date my cousin instead, she's 30 and a freak in bed.
by Caramirdan October 3, 2016
Get the Creep Rulemug. The international rule states the only acceptable instance where intercourse is ok with someone other than your significant other is when they are in France and the person committing the act is Vegan.
“Hold up, didn’t your girlfriend cheat on you bruh?” “I guess not. International Rules, I was in France.”
by Nice Hairline Kid August 16, 2018
Get the International Rulesmug. By making your middle finger and thumb into the shape of an L, the length of your dick is the diagonal distance between the two tips. Great for comparing dick sizes with the homies without having to go through the hassle of doing it normally.
by dud3man November 10, 2021
Get the Miraz's Right-Hand Rulemug. Originally used in basketball, often termed as lane violation.
For modern day use, it's for when you drop your food on the ground, but you say " 3 second rule!" as an excuse to say that your food remained clean.
For modern day use, it's for when you drop your food on the ground, but you say " 3 second rule!" as an excuse to say that your food remained clean.
"Yo hand me that juicy barbeque bacon burger"
"There you go bro.. *OH SHIT I DROPPED IT*"
"Pick that shit up, 3 second rule you remember?"
"There you go bro.. *OH SHIT I DROPPED IT*"
"Pick that shit up, 3 second rule you remember?"
by zackoff3 November 4, 2022
Get the 3 second rulemug. Rule 1188 states "only vultures 2 glaze allowed" meaning you can only glaze the Album vultures 2 by music group ¥$
by YeForever October 19, 2025
Get the Rule 1188mug.