Journalists, if they are worth anything, spend much of their professional time asking questions. Figuring out the right question(s) to put to sources is the toughest task of being a journalist, in my opinion as a former newsroom denizen.
That right question, however, is akin to Archimedes’ lever. Applied correctly, it can move the world.
The same goes for business executives. True leaders spend more time asking questions and listening to the replies than they do talking. In fact, asking questions is part of what Julie Chance, a leadership, and team development consultant, calls “Leader Language.”
