Seven questions for leaders

1. Your next presentation has facts. What about stories?

2. What’s the incentive for people to disagree with you?

3. Are you willing to walk away from a deal or project or customer or high performing employee on the basis of values?

4. Is it okay if someone else gets the credit?

5. How often you disagree with what you said in past? How gracefully you admit it?

6. If someone else can can do it better, faster and smarter than you, are you willing to let them?

7. Are you saying, “I don’t know” and “What do you think?” often?

Are you saying, “I don’t know” and “What do you think?” often?