What? (Mission)
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau
In language what refers to some thing.
Therefore in The Right Questions ‘What?’ represents the mission, the reality of what we are going to do. The mission is the bottom line, the tangible measured difference that we are to make. To work out the mission we need to define success so that we know our finish line. We can then sum this up in a pithy and memorable way to get our mission statement.
What is considered with where and why under STRATEGIC FRAMING.
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