Thursday, March 6, 2008

Asking Questions

As of today's blog, I have asked the following questions on LinkedIn with a wide variety of responses.

The links shown below will take you to my accompanying comments I made about the question and the answers I received:

  1. How do you make decisions?
  2. How do you make decisions about job applicants?
  3. How do you make decisions about what business to start?
  4. How can I get in front of a venture capitalist with a concept?
  5. How can I get in front of a venture capitalist with a concept for a web site?
  6. What is the most significant question asked on LinkedIn thus far?
  7. How do you make a decision when your process is looking to find it and waiting for it to emerge?
  8. How do you use prayer, if at all, when you make a decision and your process is looking to find the answer and waiting for the answer to emerge?
  9. Who would be best to contact for investment into an independent, feature-length documentary?
  10. What characteristics of your decisions suggest to you that the answer you have discerned is the right one and the result of your praying?
  11. When you have not prayed about it before hand, what characteristics your decisions suggest to you that the answer you have discerned is the right one?
  12. Why are we reluctant to make decisions?
  13. When making a decision, do you always determine what you are willing to risk to gain what you can only hope for?
  14. In the process of making a decision, when do you become aware of your unconscious agenda that may influence the outcome?
  15. Would you like to participate in the online Decision-Making: A Reel Retreat?
  16. Anyone know anything about bartering?
  17. What do you prefer: success or happiness?
  18. How are you contributing your best talents to the community?
  19. What is your favorite movie and why?
  20. What is your favorite novel and why?
  21. Who is the best teacher you have ever had and why?
  22. At a masquerade ball, what mask would you wear?
  23. Does psychological analysis provide you with the only real answers, after all else is said and done?
  24. Are you looking for a mentor?
  25. Would you like to be a mentor?
  26. What is your favorite quotation and why?
  27. What's your type?
  28. When is it appropriate to play "The Fool"?
  29. What are you certain about?
  30. Of all the people you know, dead or alive, who is the authority figure you most respect and follow?
  31. What do you believe in that you may be willing to change?
  32. Between your reason, your emotions, and your will, which part of you should hold the reigns to the other two?
  33. Who is the holiest person you know?
  34. Who is the wisest person you know?
  35. Is truth the measure of facts and the criteria for your reasoning or do you prefer working with fallacies?
  36. How does love influence your process of making changes?
  37. Have you changed your world view over the course of your career(s)?
  38. What addictively enslaving behaviors are disintegrating the global marketplace, our societies or our individual lives?
  39. When you contend with others about judgments based on facts and reasons, what counterfeit arguments have you run into?
  40. In today's marketplace or even in our personal lives, does right make might or might make right?
  41. When do you have the best insights while you are in the process of making a decision?
  42. When do you have the worst oversights while you are in the process of making a decision?
  43. Are these 10 philosophical mistakes the result of oversights?
  44. When praying about an issue for decision, does God always give you an answer?
  45. What is the best way you have found to tell others what your real decision is?
  46. What signals that the decision you discern is the right one?
  47. When making a decision, what is the best way to state the issue?
  48. Do you have a "method in your madness" when making decisions?
  49. What is the best way to help someone change?
  50. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "High Noon"?
  51. How are you doing in your efforts to really achieve your childhood dreams?
  52. Do you have a deep understanding of what or who drives you to seek changes that result in more success or happiness?
  53. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life"?
  54. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Witness"?
  55. Do you know of a better way to read a book to help you make a decision to change?
  56. Are you playing with a full deck when you argue for change?
  57. Why do people fear success?
  58. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Experiment in Terror"?
  59. Do you have a novel in you about change management?
  60. What issues do you want your children to hear your decisions about before you die?
  61. What, if anything, does encountering beauty have to do with change management?
  62. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Lawrence of Arabia"?
  63. What makes people so unhappy with work?
  64. Why the continuing paradox of human greatness and human unhappiness in the global workplace?
  65. How does any form of change management that enables only changes in perceived behavior, but not in substance, amount to anything more than a modern form of vanity?
  66. What gift have you received that will enhance the way you manage change in the coming year?
  67. HUMAN JUSTICE ON THE GLOBAL LEVEL?
  68. What is the best way to learn how to read, write, and speak Chinese?
  69. In managing change, is the use of reason alone ultimately just another form of vanity when we do not admit the more dominating power of human imagination?
  70. In managing change, are we, as co-workers and social human beings, destructively seduced by the vain longings for certainty, utility, and ease that modern philosophical methods have promised since the 1600s?
  71. Are efforts to manage change effectively limited by where the truth lies in the plurality of the world's organized and institutional religions?
  72. CHANGE: Instead of sharing everyday to-do lists, would you share your everyday list of what NOT-TO-DO?
  73. As part of change management, do you agree that there are ethical consequences of co-workers denying the applicability of the principle of non-contradiction to their work, if not to the lives?
  74. Since someday we, and the companies we work with, will die, what can we do to fulfill our desire to live?
  75. Is self-deception in change management unforgivable?
  76. Are our desired, but unnecessary, diversions real solutions or merely ways to kill time?
  77. Is indifference to change ultimately the most stupid of all possible responses?
  78. Is passionate truth-seeking the only way to address our human condition and overcome the dual obstacles of diversion and indifference in change management?
  79. RELIGION: What's So Great About Christianity? (Disputation)
  80. DISPUTATION: Is disputation the best way to focus participants in change management? (Disputation)
  81. CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Is happiness our ultimate goal?
  82. In change management, is anything supposed to be hidden or is it better to be fully transparent in your approach?
  83. PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT: Do you have one you want to share?
  84. When asked to interpret written words, what rules, if any, do you use to assure the reliability of your interpretation?
  85. CHANGE MANAGEMENT: What or who is our worst enemy?
  86. Assuming miracles happen, what is their chief limitation with respect to use in change management?
  87. Common-sense philosophy for managing change?
  88. Are making choices different from making decisions?
  89. Are making judgments different from making decisions?

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