Be Smart Enough to Ask the 'Stupid' Questions

A few days ago, I was sitting across from a top executive at a leading fashion retailer. He was lamenting the fact that the CEO always came back to the executive team during or right after the holidays with a three-page email about the company's direction and greater purpose.

It wasn't that this exec didn't want to address those issues. Rather, he felt continually thwarted in his efforts to do so because: 1) the other members of the team just wanted …
Source: Recruiter