You’re in a meeting, the slides are rolling, people are nodding, others are fiddling on their phones, and then it happens. You have a question. You want to be seen as engaged, so you open your mouth, and words start to tumble out . . .and the room goes still. Silence.

We’ve all been told there are no dumb questions. But if you’ve ever watched a room collectively glaze over while someone tries to stitch a stream of consciousness into something coherent, you know “dumb questions” are alive and well.

At their core, questions are about curiosity. And while curiosity may have killed the cat, in your career questions can be pure rocket fuel. When done right, curiosity makes you look sharp, collaborative, and strategic. However, haphazard curiosity may lead to you finding yourself metaphoricall

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