Announcing TH!NKSULTING or “Ask a Question”

By Rajesh Setty on Thu 09 Jul 2009, 4:40 PM – 6 Comments

For a long time I have had requests to answer questions on this blog and I have avoided that as I didn’t know how to make it work for me and the readers. Answering questions has an inherently built scaling problem. I have only limited time and can only answer a limited number of questions. If I don’t do a reasonably good job, then the person who asked the question won’t benefit – this means there is a bigger time and energy commitment.

But I have found a framework to do that.And, that is called TH!NKSULTING – just like CONsulting but slightly different! Removed the “CON” and replaced it with TH!NK

Very simply, it is to put a small hurdle to ask questions – so only serious people will participate in this. In the current phase, I am accepting questions from those of you who already have some sort of a relationship with me OR you have purchased a copy of THE FULCRUM EFFECT. One of the two – a previous or current working relationship or you have purchased a copy of THE FULCRUM EFFECT DVD. The DVD costs $82 so it may seem expensive but definitely well below my consulting rate.

There is no guarantee that you will like my answer or my answer will solve your problems. That would become CONsuting, I am only doing TH!NKsulting – providing you a perspective to look at your problem in one or two more angles.

You can send questions to “thinksulting” at “gmail” dot “com”

Be very specific but since I am publishing the question and answer, let me know if I can include your initials or not. Please make sure that your question is not “too specific” that it will stop benefiting others. The areas where you can ask me questions include but not limited to

• Personal Branding
• Lasting Relationships
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• The Art of Leverage

Here are a few questions and links to the answers

Ashwin asks – “I’m sure you’re well experienced in leading a team and currently I’m in a big quandary. How far does one give in to their own values in order for a team to work? For me, leadership is about garnering followership and working with a team to get to a common goal. But when there comes a point where you have to forgo a lot of your values in order for the team to “work”, what do you do?”

My answer is here.

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