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Frame the Best Possible Question!
Only then will real solutions make themselves known to you
As a facilitator of the creative process, I continue to be astounded by how few organizations have any kind of process is place to pause, probe and reflect in order to ensure that they are coming up with the best possible questions to ask.
Impatient for solutions, they rush headlong into problem solving before understanding what the real problem actually is.
Apparently, I’m not alone in the recognition of this phenomenon:
“It’s not that they can’t see the solution. They can’t see the problem.” — G.K. Chesterton
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.” — Jonas Salk
“We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.” — Bono
“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers…
