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The Right Answer to the Wrong Question

Here are a few of the most common grouplife questions:

  • Where can I find more leaders?
  • How can I find more apprentice leaders?
  • How can I help groups birth faster?
  • Where can I find better coaches?
  • How can I get more adults to sign up for a group?

Ever asked any of those questions?  I have.  What if it turned out that every one of those questions…are the wrong question?

Hope you’re wondering about that.  It may be a little scary, but I believe that at least three, and maybe all five, of those questions are the wrong question.

Peter Drucker said that “the important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question.  For there are few things as useless–if not dangerous–as the right answer to the wrong question.”

Scary, isn’t it?

Wondering which questions I think are the wrong questions?

Here’s one for starters.  I’m convinced that “Where can I find more leaders?” is the wrong question.  When you ask that question, you’re continually searching for identifying characteristics.  What if it turned out that the right question is “How can I create easy ways for people to connect without a leader?”

What are some other questions that you’re asking that you’re wondering about?

What do you think? Have a question? Want to argue? You can click here to jump into the conversation.