If you have not seen the back story on the question of the week, the quick version is that weekly I provide a framing question for my coaching sessions with my direct reports.

This week’s question is:

Where are we talking where we should be coding?

There is some back story on this one which I will share.

A few weeks back while browsing in a book store at an art museum, I stumbled across a book called The Architect Says (affiliate link). The copy on display had a book jacket that struck me. The book jacket was a quote from Le Corbusier which said:

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

This made me smile and do the mental s/drawing/coding/g giving me:

I prefer coding to talking. Coding is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

If you have not seen the back story on the question of the week, the quick version is that weekly I provide a framing question for my coaching sessions with my direct reports.

This week my question was as follows:

Where are we not challenging assumptions?  Where have we been too accepting of the status quo?

This question was inspired by reading the book The Ten Rules of Leadership which you can check out here (affiliate link).