Marco Derhy

Raise Your Hand & Speak Up. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers he talks about an Asian airline pilot who allowed a plan to crash out of fear of speaking up to his superiors. Again, this is a drastic analogy, but I see this daily in my office. Employees are sometimes scared to speak up and ask questions to managers, managers are afraid to speak up to C-Level executives and ask questions. I had a flight chief that use to start meetings by asking “who is the dumbest person in the room?” His question wasn’t...