{"id":101090,"date":"2019-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=101090"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:35:13","slug":"20190311-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190311-00\/?p=101090","title":{"rendered":"Precision questioning: The cynical description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Precision_questioning\">Precision questioning<\/a> is a technique used by some senior executives at Microsoft. Although precision questioning positions itself as a toolkit for critical thinking and problem solving, its use in practice doesn&#8217;t always line up with its ostensible description. As a senior manager explained it to me, <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>The way precision questioning works is that executive X is going to ask you a question, and then after you answer it, you&#8217;ll be asked a follow-up question, and so on until you finally say &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; You want to last as many rounds as possible before finally reaching the point where they asked a question you cannot answer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s what precision questioning is really about, but that&#8217;s how some practitioners use it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just keep digging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-101090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Just keep digging.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}