Go Further
Not being content with what is. Instead going a step further to discover what might be.
Whether we’re advancing as a society or you’re personally seeking to advance your capabilities, we’re now living in an age where questions are often best asked twice. Discovering greater strategic insight beyond the obvious surface answer.
We all now have the ability to far more rapidly consider strategic scenarios that we might otherwise have remained blind to. By asking better questions.
Twice.
For example when exploring the complexities and potential impacts of the changing health sector, I guided a client to ask their AI assistant (yes the future has arrived, we all now have an AI assistant ready and waiting)…
You are Te Whatu Ora Health NZ’s commissioner. The NZ Government Minister of Health has instructed you to reduce waiting times, while boosting productivity and compassion within existing health funding. Looking ahead over the next 12 months at potential impacts specifically on national providers of health and wellbeing services in Aotearoa New Zealand – as the commissioner what are 7 strategic decisions you are likely to make and 3 unexpected innovative decisions you might make?
Then critically, regardless of what the AI’s response might be, immediately reprompt with:
Thanks but that all seems a bit predictable and based on the past. Please think more carefully and deeply about the future, paying far more attention to budget constraints and the limited resources of the health sector. As commissioner what are 7 strategic decisions you are likely to make and 3 unexpected innovative decisions you might make?
Did either set of answers exactly predict what will happen? Of course not. That’s impossible. Our minds and life itself are far too complex for any machine to predict exactly what someone else is thinking. Let alone how an entire interconnected sector and communities will respond and adapt.
But in an instant, it can give us far more insight into what they might be thinking. Expanding the strategic possibilities. Creating greater organisational resilience and adaptability.
Today and in the future.
In other words:
Twice.