Ask Why

April 02, 2009

Before doing anything (in business), keep asking “WHY” until you get to the root reason for doing it.

If what you come up with is anything but

  • increase revenue
  • protect revenue
  • reduce cost

don’t do it. It’s non-productive busy work.

  1. James AveryApril 02, 2009 @ 11:11 AM

    We call that “popping the why stack” - http://www.mattblodgett.com/2009/01/pop-stack.html

  2. RyanApril 02, 2009 @ 10:35 PM

    Yeah I heard Ben Mabey mention it in his Mountain West Ruby talk, and realized it is just as applicable to business in general as it is in BDD. Just wanted to pop it out on the blog to help share the generalization with as many people as possible :)

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