You know how he doesn't like it when you stand over him, asking ill-informed questions while he's trying to work?
Still, the book fills a need for a boy who finds it difficult to ask someone other than ill-informed peers questions about the average size of a penis, wet dreams, menstruation and male and female orgasm.
Rather than a much-needed conversation about coming cuts to the US military budget or the drawdown from Afghanistan and the so-called pivot to Asia, the nation was treated to a risible array of hyperbolic, ill-informed, gotcha questions and expressions of narrow parochial concerns that had almost nothing to do with the challenges facing the next secretary of defense.
But Mr. Burton himself used to complain that Mr. Davis, despite his long experience in state government, was often ill-informed on policy questions and apt to confuse Medicare with Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid for the indigent, during budget negotiations.
And the worst part is, in a culture in which the public mustn't ever be patronised, mustn't ever be "sneered at", the panelists pander to every ill-informed opinion and binary question.
Jack and I had written a case about one of my clients at Morgan Stanley, and the students would read the case carefully and ask questions — some of them had really smart questions around finance, some of them had really smart questions about technology, and probably a third of the class would have no idea what we were talking about and would ask questions that were ill-informed.
Too often I find leaders making questionable or ill-informed decisions because "lower level" employees are hesitant to speak up, share information, or dare question/push back on a senior leader's idea.
It is especially dangerous when the leader in question is under siege, ill-informed and impulsive — and when those who seek to influence him know it.
This is not informed consent but ill-informed consent, with a side of coercion.
Some companies voice the fear that opening conference calls to ill-informed investors and reporters would lead to dumb questions.
