Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Toughen Up
As an executive or manager, what can you do to help reduce the number of failed projects within your organization?
There are a number of possible answers that any assessment could identify, but let's focus on one that is often overlooked: that of asking the tough question. The tough question itself will vary, but a good way to identify it is by the knot that forms in your stomach whenever you think about it.
Tough questions are usually focused up the organization instead of down, and are tough because they must be asked of people who will have an impact on your career, people that are politically connected, determine your next promotion and your next raise.
A typical scenario often involves a "cutting edge" idea that becomes the pet project of the owner, CEO, president or a senior VP. Everyone in the organization knows the idea is a poor one and is expecting it to fail, but no one has the courage to ask the tough question. The result? Time and …
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"Nearly every great advance in science arises from a crisis in the old theory, through an endeavor to find a way out of the difficulties created. We must examine old ideas, old theories, although they belong to the past, for this is the only way to understand the importance of the new ones and the extent of their validity." - Albert Einstein |