ZoomInfo's CEO on why leaders should welcome questions about their decisions. He argues people asking aren't attacking the idea but trying to understand your thinking. There's no formula for how much questioning is healthy.
And so it's just really important to understand that 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 want to 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, 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. But people ask you questions.
