As part of their final presentation, my students in the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan selected their favorite questions from the course. Many of them come from my book, Balanced Leadership in Unbalanced Times (publisher link).
So, in case you’re looking for some interesting conversation starters, here they are:
Balanced Leadership in Unbalanced Times
- What is my mission?
- What are the things that have driven me since I was a young adult? What actions have I taken to further my mission?
- What core values are central to my goal?
- What am I passionate about?
- What talents do I have?
- Financially, how much money is enough, and how can I make a living applying my passion and my unique talent?
- Where would you like to live? What type of community reflects your value?
- How do people perceive me? Is there anything you disagree with? Why?
- Do you have any daily practices/family rituals that help you balance your life?
- When were you at your best?
- Name a weakness? How will you prevent this to achieve your goal?
- Look back at your past failures and analyze what the components were. Where did you exceed your limits? How did you learn from it?
- What activity brings you the most joy in your life?
- What do you love to do so much that you would do it even if you weren’t being paid for it?
- What do you do better than most everybody you know?
- What are you succeeding at now that you have been succeeding at since you were a teenager?
- If you were the lead of a team, name someone in our class that you would add to your team. Why?
- How do you measure the value of life?
- What’s your dream job if you could define exactly what it is?
- How do you go about resolving conflict?