Bob and Weave

Have you ever had dealings with clients, co-workers, or just about anyone where, when you ask a fairly straight-forward question, what you get back is a great deal of talk that ends up not answering the question? For me, that usually means that they aren't wanting to be direct. If they aren't wanting to be direct then you have to think there must be a reason. Then you start wondering what the reason might be and you ask yourself, "Why do they not want me to know the answer in the first place?" Trust starts to erode. You're left with evaluating their actions against the words they just threw out at you. That's all that you can do; evaluate and decide if what they are telling you even remotely jibes with what they are doing. In the meantime, you move on and wait for the next time that they evade your questions....