Great questions

Questions to ask your boss

1. What do you think are the 3 biggest issues for our team right now?⇒ Shows big-picture thinking and caring about the team’s success

2. My top 3 priorities are X, Y and Z — do you feel they’re the most impactful way for me to spend my time? ⇒ Shows desire to have impact and work on the most important things

3. I noticed X happened

What is the next most elegant step?

Gibrán Rivera via adrienne maree brown Emergent Strategy

What’s the question behind the question?

36 questions that lead to love

Part 1

• Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

• Would you like to be famous? In what way?

• Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

• What would constitute a "perfect" day for you?

• When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

• If you were

"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"

Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"

(Via Matt Lerner)

Big thinking questions

• What do I spend a silly amount of money on? How might I scratch my own itch?

• What if I did the opposite for 48 hours?

• What would I do/have/be if I had $10 million? What’s my real TMI?

• What are the worst things that could happen? Could I get back here?

• If I could only work 2 hours per week on my business, what would I do?

• What if I