Thursday, November 03, 2011

Asking the Right Questions

One of the biggest things in finding a solution to a problem is being able to ask the right questions. That's one thing I like about David Brooks. He looks beyond the obvious and the conventional wisdom to ask what might just be the right questions. Doesn't always have the answers, but the right questions get on the path to the right solutions. Problem with the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that they have solutions before even asking the questions. So they frame the circumstances to fit. But what we really need is for leaders to take the whole reality and frame it in a way that allows us to get our brains around it, and then to help us to ask the right questions.

And here's a blog post related to church that also comes out of asking one of the right questions: in this case, what is right with the Church?