“Can you imagine a life with no fear?  What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”

                                                                                                               - Max Lucado

Leadership during challenge is multi-faceted.  Leaders must first be adept at dealing with challenges in the present moment.  When problems arise, and they will, organizations look to those in leadership to help weather the storm. 

Additionally, leaders must understand the past.  They must have a keen understanding of what worked and what did not in previous events and be able to discern from that knowledge how to proceed in times of difficulty.

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"Quality questions create a quality life.  Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

                                                                                                       - Anthony Robbins

Questions.  I have heard innumerable times in my life that the quality of our lives is in direct proportion to the quality of questions we ask ourselves.  This is particularly true when are dealing with challenges.  

As leaders in our lives and in our organizations, challenges are indeed a constant.  Ask any leader who embarked upon something big, and they will almost always tell you that they never arrived at their desired outcome in the way they...