CHAPTER 12The Bottom Line

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

Martin Seligman

Sitting at my desk this afternoon, I leaned back in my chair and reflected on all we had accomplished at QTec in the recent past. In my right hand I held the rosewood paperweight Joseph had given me several years ago. Once again I read the words on its sterling silver plaque: Great results begin with great questions. Those words and everything I’d learned from Joseph had become my inner compass. Question Thinking had opened up a part of my mind I might never have otherwise discovered, guiding me safely through some pretty rough terrain.

My mind drifted back to that dark day when I drafted my resignation letter, certain I hadn’t ...

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