Giving Good-Enough Answers
The key to good-enough answers is the following statement:
A good-enough answer today is much, much better than a great answer next week.
This is hard for professionals to believe because they’re so accustomed to giving correct answers that solve problems. A good-enough answer doesn’t satisfy that criterion. Worse, it might even be wrong, and nobody wants to be wrong to their manager. But being able to quickly provide good-enough answers helps you and your career, because it not only addresses the problem and thereby removes it from your list of tasks, it also relieves the questioner’s frustration of waiting for a reply.
Because you probably don’t have a perfect answer available, following is a basic template you can ...
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