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If the same 10 or 15 people have the same conversations about strategy in the same way, new insights will be unlikely.

Gary Hamel and Jim Scholes

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By Matt Lyons on July 25, 2017

Previous ArticleLeaders do not need answers.
Leaders must have the right questions.

There are many ways to determine priorities for effort, time, and finances. One question that many find helpful is:

Where and in what ways can we change lives most profoundly?

Next Article Leaders do not need answers.
Leaders must have the right questions.

When there is an impasse in a contentious debate, a compromise is found, often one with which no one is pleased. Thomas G. Kirkpatrick suggests some questions to ask before moving to compromise, including:

What is the primary issue about which we are differing?
What are the goals we each seek?
What other options do we have?

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