Excerpt from a leadership/coach-style YouTube monologue arguing that the quality of solutions depends on the quality of questions. The speaker (Ryan Deiss) warns leaders frequently solve the wrong problem or fail to identify the real problem, and recommends pausing conversations/meetings to explicitly clarify what problem the team is solving.
The answers that you get are directly correlated to the quality of the questions that you ask. And most people just ask really bad questions. And it's the same with leaders that they're trying to. The reason they can't solve anything is because they're solving for the wrong problem, or they don't even know the real problem that they're solving for. And I can't tell you how many times I've been in a meeting with a lot of very smart people all talking about stuff, and, you know, we're 15, 20 minutes into this thing, and I'm like, hey, timeout. Pause. What is the problem that we're solving for?
