The ONE Question Managers Must Answer—Correctly

As a manager, your hear questions every day. Some serious; some trivial. “What do you hear about the merger plans?” “Is our budget being cut?” “Can we get an extension on the deadline?” “Are we going to have to work over the weekend?”

But the ONE question that you have to answer correctly every time is this: “What are you working on?”

And it’s particularly critical that you get the answer right when responding to your boss. Your reputation can also suffer when you blow that question with p...