“WHY?” The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself
July 16, 2008 Career Goals & Planning, Job Satisfaction, Recession & Downturn TrackBack URL
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In life, in business and in your career, asking the ‘Why’ question is what achieves progress. Asking ‘why’ creates breakthroughs. Asking ‘why’ creates innovations. Asking ‘why’ solves problems.
Every major financial institution is currently asking itself the question “Why?”
(Aside from the obvious “Why did we ever get into the sub-prime business?!”)
They are looking at which markets they are involved in. Which products and solutions are on offer?
And then asking Why? What purpose do they serve?
Asking these questions will create the breakthrough to achieve a turnaround and ride out the tough market.
You should be doing exactly the same thing. Asking yourself ‘why’ questions about your job and your career.
When you start asking questions of yourself you start to uncover insights and motivations that you didn’t realise were there. You start coming up with solutions to problems that previously seemed unsolvable.
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