Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. A conversation designed to help leaders

go further faster. On today's podcast, we're going to discuss six important questions that

every leader needs to ask. Before we get to these six, I'd like to start with a question

I guess really about questions and one of the things I've observed after just working

with you for 20 years is you ask a lot of great questions and you ask a lot of questions

and why do you place so much emphasis on this? Well you know I don't think I do it on purpose

I think I'm just I just want to learn and the only way to learn is to ask questions especially

when I'm around other leaders or you see people do things well you know the tendency is

always to evaluate what we do wrong but when you see somebody else doing something well

you know you want to understand the the why behind the what and so I just didn't have

to ask a lot of questions. I remember you telling me a story one time about I guess going

fishing with your dad and there was another pastor there and he maybe didn't value questions

quite as much. Oh gosh and you know growing up with a somewhat famous father at least in

the circle he runs in I see this all the time in the the occasion you're talking about

this guy took his fishing we were in a boat with him for two days so like from 630 in the

morning til about a little after lunch we fish with this guy and he never shut up and

I thought and he was so excited that my dad was there and I you know Dr. Stanley I've

watched television for years and you blessed me and on and on and on and then he never

stopped talking he never asked my dad one question I thought you just spent two days with

a guy that you have great admiration for you know here's your opportunity to ask him

anything I mean you could have learned three or four years worth of lessons just by asking

my dad questions and honestly we we got in the car after both days of fishing and just

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