Your Three Choices In the Wake of FailureThe Choice that Makes for a More Resourceful Future

Nothing says more about a leader's character than the way he or she responds to wholesale failure. Is the first impulse to make excuses for what happened? To find someone to blame for the failure? Or is it to learn from the failure so that we are more resourceful in the future?

As leaders, we are charged with giving people hope, confidence, and optimism for the future. We are doing none of those things so long as are offering excuses or pointing a finger of blame. Excuse-making and blaming anchor us in the past, not the future.

But when we start asking about what's to be learned from the failure, we shift our thinking to the future and how we can use lessons learned to make bring greater promise to that future. And the most effective way to draw out those lessons is with quality questions about what went wrong.

This episode looks at perhaps the one question which you should always ask in such assessments. It's actually a question about questions. It helps us identify questions which, had we asked them, might have averted the failure.

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