What leads you to that assumption?
Page 211. What leads you to that assumption? Why do you think it is correct? What might happen if it is wrong? What are the uncertainties of your analysis? I understand the advantages of your recommendation. But what are the disadvantages?
— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business) · Think Again by Adam Grant
In the book
The big decisions, though, deserve a different pace: before a major one, slow down, do the research, and understand the five parties a real decision touches — the customer, the employee, the owner, the community, and the process. Pressure-test your own thinking the way good managers force their teams to — what leads you to that assumption, why do you believe it's correct, and what happens if it's wrong? Delegate, and mean it. A leader who lets every problem climb onto his own back ends up carrying a zoo. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)