Models for Questioning while Leading

Abstract

Anita Roddick tells us that she has learnt from practice. She also tells us that to learn from experience means to “never stop asking questions, and knock on doors to seek as many different opinions as exist. Then you have to make up your own mind” (2000, p. 39). Surely, as practical people, we cannot always be asking reflectively. For the most part, we need to get the work done, so we need to be goal-focused, not question-focused. Indeed, we tend to get irritated with people who ask inquire whilst we are on the job.