Do you need to be more skeptical to survive in the world of business?

Barry Maher, author of Filling the Glass: The Skeptic’s Guide to Positive Thinking in Business, offers a quick quiz to help you decide if you need to be a little less trusting of those around you in the world of business.

My favorites include these:

10. You believe the numbers in the business plan. I can’t believe anyone is that dumb, but maybe I’ve written to many myself in the past.

7. When they tell you this is a “people company,” you think one of those people is you. Only one group of ‘people’ truly count and they’ve all got corner offices and vast numbers of stock options.

5. When the CEO says that customers come first, you think that means BEFORE short-term profits and driving up his stock options. I’m almost sure nobody can be that dumb, but . . .

2. You accept a lateral move and relocate to East Cowflop, North Dakota, because you think that puts you in line for the next promotion rather than at the top of the list for the next hellhole where nobody else is willing to go. Yes, well, if that’s how you think, East Cowflop is probably where you need to be.

Check out the entire list here.

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