Questions Every Leader Should Answer

One of the best ways to become a better leader is to view your organisation in a new light. Here are 17 questions every leader should answer.

1. What three things are holding us back?
2. Is success making us complacent?
3. What policies are outdated?
4. Would I do business with us if I were a customer?
5. What counts that we’re not counting?
6. What can we learn from vibrant start-up companies?
7. Are we winning the word-of-mouth battle?
8. Why are great ideas collecting dust on our shelves?
9. Why are we really losing great people?
10. Do we read the reports that we request?
11. Do people follow us out of fear or out of respect?
12. What actions, today, will have the greatest impact in ten years?
13. Do we walk our talk?
14. What barriers should we remove for our people?
15. Do we spend more time building up or tearing down?
16. Are we doing our best?
17. How are we advancing the values of our organisation?

Frank Sonnenberg

 

Thanks to Frank Sonnenberg who is an award-winning author. He has written six books and over 300 articles. Frank was recently named one of “America's Top 100 Thought Leaders” and one of America’s Most Influential Small Business Experts. Frank has served on several boards and has consulted to some of the largest and most respected companies in the world.