🧐 After 600 interviews, I learned leaders’ wisdom lies in these two questions

 
Every time I speak to a leader who spends a lot of time pondering the right questions to ask to help better understand people and processes, I’m inspired. Apparently, so is Jenna Abdou. In a piece she penned for Fast Company, the host of the podcast 33Voices reflects on her experiences. Over the course of 600 conversations with a cadre of guests ranging from artists to entrepreneurs to neuroscientists, all of whom are “united by the belief that we have an opportunity to make a difference,” Abdou came to a realization. “When I started hosting 33Voices, I believed guests’ wisdom lied in their answers,” she writes. “Now, nearly a decade later, I know it’s in the questions they inspire.” Read on to discover the two that have come to shape Abdou’s life and work.
—Lydia Dishman
 
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Natasha Sarin, a tax policy counselor for the U.S. Treasury, shared a photo on social media this week that shows an Austin, TX-based IRS facility overflowing with crates of unprocessed paper returns.
The tweet, unsurprisingly, is getting widely shared, with more than 4,300 likes as of Wednesday afternoon.
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