Interviewing Management – Core Issues To Discuss

Interviewing Management - Core Issues To Discuss by Tom Macpherson, Dorfman Value Investments

“Good questions are often far more powerful than answers,” they argue. “Good questions challenge your thinking. They reframe and redefine the problem. They throw cold water on our most dearly held assumptions, and force us out of our traditional thinking. They motivate us to learn and discover more. They remind us of what is most important in our lives.”

Andrew Sobol and Jerald Panas[1]

In 2013 during a strategy session reviewing decision-making in the Second Iraq War, an officer heard a case study and whistled. “How the hell could we have missed something like that?” he asked. After a long pause, the facilitator said, “Simple....