Does your team incessantly talk about the same issues? Does it seem that too many issues never get resolved?

I find that most groups get stuck in one or more of three areas, discernment, design, or discipline - i.e understanding what is going on, crafting a satisfying response, and following through with meaningful action.

Following are twelve questions leaders can use to stimulate progress on those persistent issues that plague your team or organization.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~ Bertrand Russell

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
~ David Friedman

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
~ Albert Einstein

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
~ John W. Gardner

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
~ James Magary

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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