In earlier blogs, I've mentioned my appreciation for sets of questions to ask in pertinent situations. This morning some work by Robert Quinn that was published in the Harvard Business Review presented me with just such a set of questions.
Before every crucial conversation, decision, or meeting, ask yourself four questions:
- What result do I want to create?
- What are my core values -- and is my behavior aligned with them?
- Have I committed to the collective good in my organization, even at personal cost?
- What signals am I seeing in the environment that suggest the need for change?
These questions lead you into what Mr. Quinn calls a
fundamental state of leadership - the way you lead when a crisis forces you to tap into your deepest values and instincts. I suspect that this is quite similar to what Tom Crum and I would call
Centered Leadership. Undoubtedly, if we were going to mesh our work with Mr. Quinn's, we would suggest that before asking the questions, you would breathe and center.
If you would like to know more about Mr. Quinn's approach, here is a
link to the article.
Judy Warner
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