There are no stupid questions
Tuesday Nov 25, 2008
How often do you hear this in a meeting whenever apologies before asking anything: "I may have a stupid question, but ..." And this is most of the time followed by: "There are no stupid questions..."
Well this happens to be true, and I firmly believe that there really are NO stupid questions. Well, very few anyway...
This was demonstrated to me again today. At Sun I run a number of reports for account teams that contain various data on their business. Last week one account manager asked to see a specific report, with more details, such as individual line items. Earlier today I sent in this report, and there was some back and forth emailing, each time going more into the specifics.
And this led to me also going into more details about the query I am using, and lo and behold, I found an error in the query which leads to the numbers being incorrect.
So a big thank you to the account manager who took the time to look at the numbers, ask questions, and push on until the answer was satisfactory for all. This will lead to more accurate reporting going forward!
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