Management planning questions—a world moving in time

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Management planning questions are attention directing tools

Rather than trying to define answers, it is more productive to define the right questions.

Some questions challenge our assumptions.

Other questions ask us to do something more specific

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Examples of MPQs can be found in books (link to toc.html). Typically they are placed at the beginning or endings of a chapter. In Peter Drucker's work they are almost always embedded in the text and phrased as a question. At other times there is just an implied question which he explores and you have to figure it out for yourself.

You might find it interesting and useful to pose questions when reading organization evolution articles in the news. What question or questions explain a certain success or would have prevented some kind of strategic crisis. You might think in terms of strategic, operating, or people questions. In the case of the 2003 electrical blackout in the northeast, what general question would have prevented it and similar crisises?

You might want to create a reminder to repeatedly ask: "what do I have to do (informed in each of the five dimensions) to have the kind of life (informed) I want (informed)?".