Q: I’ve tried to follow your advice about learning about past failed initiatives. But I can’t get people to be honest with me! How do I get real answers?

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If you are asking this as a very senior person, it’s really hard to get people to be very honest with leaders and managers and so you have to accept that at some level your first step might actually be to…

But let’s go beyond that, suppose you’re asking people who are essentially your peers what happened with this past project, and they’re still giving you these very generic answers…

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