How to ask effective questions?

Ankur Sharma
6 min readDec 27, 2021

On my first day at the job, the HR director came into our induction and told us newbies “Remember, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!” I took his lesson to the heart and became a question-asking machine.

As the years went by, the realisation hit me that yes, there are no stupid questions. But, there are ineffective questions. Ineffective questions suck the air out of the room. They do not…

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Ankur Sharma

Writes about Leadership, Startups, Product & People management. I write to think.