The Question Each One Asks First
A coach asks what you want. An advisor asks what's actually happening. The order determines everything downstream. The Question Each One Asks First Spectators are NOT a business model Most founders who hire help start with the wrong question being asked of them. Not because the question is unkind. Because it's the wrong order of operations. A coach asks what you want. An advisor asks what's actually happening. And the order those two questions get asked in determines everything that happens after. Two questions, two different rooms A coach asks what you want. That question assumes the founder is the most reliable narrator of their own situation. It assumes the bottleneck is unclear desire. It assumes that once the goal is named, the work becomes execution. So the engagement is built around clarifying the goal, holding the founder to the goal, and removing the internal obstacles between the founder and the goal. The frame is desire-first. An advisor asks what's a...