If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
—Albert Einstein
Questions are my stock and trade when coaching executives or working as an organization development practitioner. “What if” questions are great for driving innovation and creativity and for jumping people out of their normal linear thinking and getting them to take a look at things from a different angle, opening up their mind to new ideas, absurd ideas, ridiculous notions that might, just might, be the answer and solution we were looking for all along.
In 2011, I was listening to a news broadcast and there was a feature on the Mountain of Mammon, referring to the continuous pursuit of wealth at all costs. At the time, it caught something in me and I ...
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