Asking
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And I understand what you're
asking.
You've made hundreds, maybe thousands of phone calls to people you don't even know
asking
for their support, begging for their money.
Those of you who may remember me from TEDGlobal remember me
asking
a few questions which still preoccupy me.
As I ride out, as I ride my own inner strength, my own inner resilience, armed as I am with what medication can provide and continue treatment, as I ride out into the battlefield of cancer,
asking
my rogue cells to behave, I want to be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror.
And we started
asking
ourselves the questions about how we were actually addressing the higher needs, these transformational needs for our key employees in the company.
But as we started
asking
ourselves about how we were addressing the higher needs of our employees and our customers, I realized we had no metrics.
So we started
asking
ourselves: What kind of less obvious metrics could we use to actually evaluate our employees' sense of meaning, or our customers' sense of emotional connection with us?
For example, we actually started
asking
our employees, do they understand the mission of our company, and do they feel like they believe in it, can they actually influence it, and do they feel that their work actually has an impact on it?
We started
asking
our customers, did they feel an emotional connection with us, in one of seven different kinds of ways.
As I went out and started spending time with other leaders out there and
asking
them how they were getting through that time, what they told me over and over again was that they just manage what they can measure.
So I started
asking
myself the question: How can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible?
At age 17, he started
asking
the kinds of questions that you'd expect of someone with a beginner's mind.
Now, in essence, the king was
asking
us to consider an alternative definition of success, what has come to be known as GNH, or gross national happiness.
We're not
asking
meaningful metrics.
We're not
asking
important questions.
We're not
asking
anything that's intangible.
A writer named Ted Williams called me, and he was
asking
me a couple of questions about what I saw, because he's writing an article for Audubon magazine.
And the first lesson, which I think is a worthwhile one, is that you cannot go wrong
asking
people to be active online, so long as activism just means retweeting a phrase.
CA: I think that's the CIA
asking
what the code is for a TED membership.
But I saw parents on social media reaching out to other parents,
asking
if their autistic children could play together.
So I started
asking
my friends and neighbors and was really surprised to learn many of them don't have a will, and some couples don't realize they need individual wills.
As he was nearing his death, his disciples and followers kept
asking
him, "What's the secret?
By companies
asking
for this, we can leverage production so much faster than by waiting for consumers to do it.
And what this does is it leads people to walk into their stores,
asking
this question.
It's because they are preoccupied,
asking
themselves, "Should I get married or not?
And even if they're all shut off, every minute that we're watching our kid mutilate a soccer game, we are also
asking
ourselves, "Should I answer this cell phone call?
The merchants liked her embroidery; it sold very well, and they kept
asking
for more.
You're probably
asking
that.
Wait." (Laughter) And he started
asking
me questions.
And I think that's what we're doing when we're
asking
people to engage with our agenda around environmental degradation and climate change.
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