{"id":2898,"date":"2018-01-22T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T22:12:26","slug":"three-minute-leadership-the-power-of-asking-the-right-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2018\/01\/three-minute-leadership-the-power-of-asking-the-right-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: The Power of Asking the “Right” Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n

Tony Robbins<\/a> said: \u201cSuccessful people ask better questions and, as a result, they get better answers.<\/i>\u201d W. Edwards Deming<\/a> adds to this writing: \u201cIf you don\u2019t know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing<\/i>.\u201d Great leaders understand the power of asking the \u201cright\u201d question. They know that what you ask is what you get. A simple example helps demonstrate this. When confronted with an obstacle or wall that impedes progress, the question could be asked: \u201cHow can I get around this wall<\/i>?\u201d A better question could be posed as: \u201c Once I get around this wall, what new wonders will I be able to realize to fulfill my dreams?<\/i>\u201d The better question creates new possibilities and better solutions.<\/p>\n

In his book, The Flight of the Eagle<\/a>, Jiddu Krishnamurti<\/a> tells great leaders: \u201cTo ask the right question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem<\/i>.\u201d The formulation of the \u201cright\u201d question is one of exploration, open-mindedness and big-picture thinking, one emanating from our priorities and purpose\u2026 what we think is what we are. \u00a0As Bernard Baruch<\/a> said: \u201cMillions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked wh<\/i>y.\u201d Be that one who asks why.<\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning Tony Robbins said: \u201cSuccessful people ask better questions and, as a result, they get better answers.\u201d W. Edwards Deming… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}