Michelangelo said: The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it!
Questions point people to higher aims and two-footed questions draw in more meaningful personal responses…. Do your leaders ask questions that motivate growth of ideas and at the same time, inspire people to achieve quality results?
One foot of your question links to research, facts, or observations … and the other foot links to people’s experiences and abilities… To ask a two-footed question is to get people involved in personal responses that solve complex problems… For example you add two feet when you ask, “How can your annual report compare your department’s solutions with solutions from another department that solved a similar problem?”
Make sense? Simply add one foot to plumb new knowledge depths and add the other foot to draw in personnel talent …. Then watch your common aim move higher and rewire people’s visionary developments across departments … much like oceans and seashores interact in nature.
It almost sounds like one part of the question is "left brain" and one part is "right brain". One deals with the concrete (facts, figures) and one deals with the bigger picture or expanded thought that then becomes more personal. Is that what you're saying?
Posted by: Ann Michael | April 30, 2006 11:15 AM | Permalink to Comment