{"id":3749,"date":"2024-11-22T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:28:27","slug":"be-quiet-the-insight-professionals-guide-to-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/blog\/be-quiet-the-insight-professionals-guide-to-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Quiet! The Insight Professional&#8217;s Guide to Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been thinking about&nbsp;<strong>silence&nbsp;<\/strong>this week at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/69425\/admin\/page-posts\/published\/?share=true#&amp;trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">STRAT7 Incite<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing how to shut up and listen is one of the first things any good qual researcher \u2013 any good researcher full-stop, really \u2013 has to learn. And it applies to working with clients and colleagues too. It makes space for the views of others, and for proper critical reflection on your own ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it sounds like such a simple thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But look at the list of famous proponents of silence \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elatimes%2Ecom%2Fopinion%2Fstory%2F2021-05-27%2Fclarence-thomas-speaking-oral-arguments&amp;urlhash=SkU1&amp;trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 silent on the US Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas went a full 10 years without asking a single question as one of nine Justices on the US Supreme Court<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcollabfund%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Flazy-work-good-work%2F&amp;urlhash=3u_Z&amp;trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John D. Rockefeller<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 famously quiet in meetings, advocate of listening over speaking to learn and understand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epsychologytoday%2Ecom%2Fintl%2Fblog%2Fadaptation%2F201703%2Fwant-to-be-a-great-listener-do-this-1-thing&amp;urlhash=wgca&amp;trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Zuckerburg<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 reputedly a very good listener and praised widely for his introverted yet thoughtful approach to leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Einc%2Ecom%2Fjustin-bariso%2Famazon-jeff-bezos-powerpoint-meetings-how-to-think%2Ehtml%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DBezos%2520says%2520the%2520primary%2520reason%2Chave%2520time%2520to%2520do%2520that&amp;urlhash=mG3k&amp;trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeff Bezos<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 introduced meetings with a \u2018silent start\u2019 at Amazon where attendees spend c.20 mins at the start of the meeting together in silence to carve out true focus time and dedication to the matter in hand. Also, speaks of his conscious decision to speak last in meetings to avoid influencing his juniors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This invites a question: Is being the quiet, reflective type maybe a bit easier to pull off if you\u2019re a Supreme Court justice (even a supremely controversial one), or a plutocrat, or (depending on the way the wind blows) literally the richest man in the world?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So consider this a call for help:\u00a0<\/strong><em>How do you make time to listen and to reflect? In field? With stakeholders? Who does it well?<\/em><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-4.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been thinking about&nbsp;silence&nbsp;this week at&nbsp;STRAT7 Incite. Knowing how to shut up and listen is one of the first things any good qual researcher \u2013 any good researcher full-stop, really \u2013 has to learn. And it applies to working with clients and colleagues too. It makes space for the views of others, and for proper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}