Seven Questions Every Business Owner Better Ask
It’s never too late to discover new questions for breakthrough results.
Questions are crucial in discovering the valuable information needed in making ongoing decisions in guiding your company to success. Every executive needs a quiver of questions helping detect and discern insights for remarkable results.
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What’s working and what’s not working?
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Who’s working and who’s not working?
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If our company tripled in size over the next ten years, do you have any clues as to the new ideas or reasons we would grow so quickly?
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What are the best ideas you’ve heard from others or thought of by yourself … that would make us a better company?
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Does your supervisor inspire you to love your job?
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If you were in my shoes (the owner) what product, service, team, department, etc. would you judge as “dead weight”?
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What do our customers grumble most about?
This question seeks to discover the ability of your employee in understanding the needs of your customers.
This question discovers the things that will take you into the future and the things you need to drop. Too many businesses are beating dead horses while missing the wave to their future.
This question discovers your true team-players and your deadbeats. Reward the workers and fire the shirkers.
Every product (chair, desk, computer, etc.) that you can see, began as an idea in someone’s head. Increase the production of great ideas.
The best and the brightest will be drawn to companies that create a culture of caring.
Jesus didn’t pay any of his employees, yet thousands worked for him – why? Inspired people live to work!
This question discovers the hidden weaknesses (and agendas).
