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Pepperoni for peace, slice of life

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Trailrider Pizza sits on a curve alongside a dark night-time stretch of old Route 66 in the mountains on the outskirts of tiny Tijeras, N.M.

Lights were out, the business was closed for the night as I passed at about 2 Tuesday morning, heading home from one of my occasional marathon supply-run shopping trips to Albuquerque. Moon had not yet risen. As my headlights briefly cut through the trees and splashed across the dirt parking lot and illuminated for a second the unlit sign on the business, I recalled another night passing by. That was in early 2003, during the stupid, lying run-up to “W’s” Iraq war.

Then, Trailrider had a super-well-lit makeshift signboard sitting out by the highway. Wish I’d shot a photo.

It said:

“Give Pizza Chance.”

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Ask powerful questions to achieve powerful results

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

by ken winston caine

The questions you ask and choose to explore shape the outcomes you achieve. The trick is to ask powerful questions.

They cut to the chase. They move you forward quickly and smartly.

Asking powerful questions is at the heart of “coaching” as it was developed by Thomas Leonard. And I’ve been collecting lists of powerful questions, or coaching questions, for 11 years — ever since I was first exposed to Leonard’s approach.

But simply being armed with a mile-long list of powerful questions does not make one a good coach. Or guarantee you magnificent, rapid, sustainable personal success. The good coach and the smart achiever know how to ask the right type of question at exactly the right moment.

Better, I think, to understand what a powerful question is, so that you can instinctively pose one when it is needed, than to have a long list of questions to sort through. (Though a list is valuable.)

So what is a powerful question?

The best explanation I have come across comes not from the world of life coaching or business coaching or corporate coaching, but from pioneers of The World Cafe process, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs.

They write, on their website, that a powerful question has eight defining characteristics: (more…)

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