EPISODE · Jun 5, 2026 · 9 MIN
The Best Interview Asks No Questions: Legal Tools for Safety Investigations
from Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins · host FourFs Host
"Grab a coffee. Tell me what happened." That's the entire script.Desai Link — author of "Beyond the Incident" — explains why he's the first person to translate 400 years of British legal causation principles into safety investigation tools, and why the word "interview" itself can wreck the conversation before it starts.In this 10-minute conversation, Desai shares:• How British adversarial law evolved tools for weighing competing oral testimony• Why humility + respect + psychological safety beats any structured interview script• The "proactive labeling" technique — naming the conversation before it happens• "Grab a coffee" vs. "I need to interview you" — what changes in the brain• Why the best interview probably doesn't ask a single question• How to apply legal causation to a workplace incident review—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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"Grab a coffee. Tell me what happened." That's the entire script.Desai Link — author of "Beyond the Incident" — explains why he's the first person to translate 400 years of British legal causation principles into safety investigation tools, and why the word "interview" itself can wreck the conversation before it starts.In this 10-minute conversation, Desai shares:• How British adversarial law evolved tools for weighing competing oral testimony• Why humility + respect + psychological safety beats any structured interview script• The "proactive labeling" technique — naming the conversation before it happens• "Grab a coffee" vs. "I need to interview you" — what changes in the brain• Why the best interview probably doesn't ask a single question• How to apply legal causation to a workplace incident review—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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