35 great questions, part 1

Part 1 of 5 in my condensed reprint of Inc’s article, “35 Great Questions” from the April 2014 issue.

1. How can we become the company that would put us out of business? –{{Danny Meyer}}
2. Are we relevant? Will we be relevant five years from now? Ten? –{{Debra Kaye}}
3. If energy were free, what would we do differently? –{{Tony Hsieh}}
4. What is it like to work for me? –{{Robert Sutton}}
5. If we weren’t already in business, would we enter it today? And if not, what are we going to do about it? –{{Peter Drucker}}
6. What trophy do we want on our mantle? –{{Marcy Massura}}
7. Do we have bad profits? –{{Jonathan L Byrnes}}