Asking the Big Questions

Our lives are, in many ways, defined by the questions we are willing to ask and answer.  What’s possible?  What’s getting in my way?  What is truly meaningful?  It’s when we are willing to challenge some of the foundational assumptions that form the underpinnings of our lives that we discover new possibilities.  

The same is true with organizations.  Organizations can get locked in a stranglehold of their own assumptions about how things are and therefore must be.  They collectively say things like, “We are nice,” or “We are all about action.”  Often this way of being has become so familiar that they barely even notice the true impact of choosing to be this way, or the very fact that it’s a choice at all.  It’s “just the way things are.”