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Thought-based questions

TaskThere are not many roles that don’t require an element of thought leadership.

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Where solutions do

required. Some of the best administrators that we have worked with are those

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For more senior or complex roles, the dimension of thought leadership is about

more complex problem solving, involving many variables, longer-term thinking

   and scenario building, right up to visioning and strategy.

task
   It’s an important aspect of most jobs, then, and in this chapter we’ll explorepeople

how to recognise a ‘thought leadership’ question, and we’ll give you some

example questions and answers for different levels of role.

              Give one specific example.

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