ZoomInfo's CEO says when employees question your decisions, they usually want to understand your thinking, not attack you. Too few questions signal disengagement; too many can overwhelm. There's no simple fix, but leaders should welcome the inquiry.
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And so it's just really important to understand that when you're, when people are questioning you, questioning decisions that you're making, it's not them questioning the decision or you specifically, they're just trying to understand how you got there. And so hearing those questions and going, okay, I understand why they're asking it, they wanna know what my decision-making process was, what the inputs were, how I made that decision, that's very different than this is a dumb idea. And they hear oftentimes this is a dumb idea, they don't hear like, like, hey, bring me along. Is there any management leadership trick you have to get the right amount of questions? Like, none isn't good, and too many is overwhelming, right? I don't have a good hack. No trick for that one? Oh yeah. But people ask you questions.