The Question Every Leader Should Be Asking

Posted by Scott Williams
13 Comments
September 27, 2011
Leaders | Leadership | Life Application | Next-Level Leader | Organizational Growth

Sometimes it’s easier and makes more sense for me to share my morning thoughts from my journal than it is to write a blog post.  Here you go, my thoughts from BWI airport this morning on the thought of: The Question Every Leader Should Be Asking. This could actually be the question every parent should be asking as well. ~dream BIG. think BIGGER.

  • http://www.seventy8productions.com/ Jeremy Smith

    First off, is that a moleskin? Secondly, I agree that it should be about our service to others. You say that is the thought parents should be having, I would come back with this is what we should be having towards parents. How can I serve you?

    • Scott Williams

      No it’s a journal that a church had given me as a gift… you can replace the inside & keep the outside.

  • Bill Caulfield

    In our circle we call that: being “other-centered”. We understand that Jesus was so focused.

    • Scott Williams

      Amen & Amen

  • http://helloheady.com heady

    Love this!

    • Scott Williams

      That’s your mantra…

  • http://peanutbuttercupmoment.tumblr.com/ TJ

    As a teacher, this would apply to my job, too.

    And someone should turn your journal page into a graphic design. It would make a great poster.

    • Scott Williams

      I might see if someone is willing to do that…

  • http://tijuanabecky.wordpress.com Becky

    Thank you for the reminder Scott. I love to be helpful just sometimes forget to ask how I can be. Great question to ask. I do have a question though, if you’re always asking the same people how you can be helpful does it ever get annoying? Would it ever be bothersome to ask that all the time?

    • Scott Williams

      Possibly… it’s important to ask it in different ways and ask by your actions as opposed to just asking. Great Question.

  • http://community.acstechnologies.com/ Eleanor

    This reminds me of what a wise friend recently told me about bosses … “their jobs should be 1: to make work as bearable as possible for the people who work for them and 2: to help them do better and be better.”

    Yours is more succinct, for sure.

    • Scott Williams

      That’s some great wisdom… thanks for the comment

  • http://www.gobeyondsurvival.com Cheryl

    I love what you’re getting at, but will say that this year I’ve been really trying to not use the word “help” and instead use “support.” We all need help – but phrasing it that way keeps some of the power back whereas offering support still gives ownership and full power to the person you’re working with.

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