With organizations of all sorts facing increased urgency and unpredictability, being able to ask smart questions has become key. But unlike lawyers, doctors, and psychologists, business professionals are not formally trained on what kinds of questions to ask when approaching a problem. They must learn as they go. In their research and consulting, the authors have seen that certain kinds of questions have gained resonance across the business world. In a three-year project they asked executives to brainstorm about the decisions they’ve faced and the kinds of inquiry they’ve pursued. In this article they share what they’ve learned and offer a practical framework for the five types of questions to ask during strategic decision-making: investigative, speculative, productive, interpretive, and subjective. By attending to each, leaders and teams can become more likely to cover all the areas that need to be explored, and they’ll surface information and options they might otherwise have missed.

“Skepticism is healthy if it leads us to question the received pieties of our age. But our modern culture has elevated skepticism to such an ultimate value that belief in anything seems faintly absurd. Yet human beings cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope—and these things all require a faith dimension.”

This video is the culmination of our semester in The Way To Work, as we receive the words of Jesus near the culmination of His ministry, as He explains how His followers should work.

What beliefs do you take to work? In this video, you will be encouraged to know that there is one belief that makes work the most rewarding -- work so rewarding that it is incalculable!

When we align our goals, plans, actions, gifts, and means with our life purpose — life with Jesus — we are actually walking with Jesus.

All of life and work requires interdependence. Interdependence is based on high trust relationships. To grow and keep healthy relationships, we must evaluate each one and take intentional steps to improve them. Watch as Howard gives practical steps for evaluating and improving every important relationship.

Lisa Moak joins Howard on The Way To Work Podcast for a Mother’s Day special! Lisa is the mother of 3 children, and, today, she joins us to talk about how the Working Genius intersects with the wonderful work of motherhood. Her Working Genius is Enablement / Wonder. You’ll hear practical examples of how she enables her husband to be more effective in his work as she idealistically supports her children to be the best they can be.

Kem is a mentor of mentors and is currently Executive Vice President at Wilson Investment Management. Kem has intentionally invested in the next generation through mentoring and discipleship. In this video, he shares his approach to mentoring and demonstrates how mentoring others multiplies our impact for the Kingdom of God.

Kem has made mentoring and discipleship the intentional focus of his life. Thousands of people have been directly impacted by Kem’s intentional approach to life and work, and the multiplying impacts on others are incalculable — which is exactly the way Jesus designed for us to work.