Why agility, curiosity, and the right questions define effective leaders

Moments of crisis reveal an organisation’s true values and leadership presence matters. The culture built now will shape employee loyalty and morale long after the agitation subsides.

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“Judge a person by their questions, not their answers,” advised Voltaire, the French historian and philosopher, almost three centuries ago. Is there nothing new under the sun?

What is the value of the right answer to the wrong question? If you change the questions, does the business problem shift? Is the idea of strategic planning, bordering on a hoax? What can one learn from the agile Napoleon in taking a sprint approach to insightful business strategy?

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