Leaders Ask Questions

If you have kids, you remember the time in their lives when all they did was ask you questions.  When my son Chris was 4 or 5 years old, he couldn’t go 10 minutes without asking “why?”
We couldn’t be in the car more than a minute before he would start asking me about something he saw outside. Yes, this was before there were DVD players in cars and electronics in their hands!
What was amazing was he asked each question with sincerity of wanting to know something. That’s the amazing thing about kids. They’re not encumbered by expectations.  They’re not driven by ego and they certainly don’t feel any level of intimidation.
Something funny (and kind of sad) happens as kids grow up — Ego, pride and everything else come onto the scene and limit the questions they ask.  Generally speaking, this happens to all of us, right? But there is so much