Whose job is it to ask the difficult questions?

We now appear to be entering what could be a Post Covid 19 Build Back Better period. I’m inspired by the growing number of references to how this unexpected and shared life experience, is creating a new future for us all. From newspaper articles on the voting public wanting happiness indicators to films shared on social media about this being the ‘great realisation’.

I wonder- if this IS the point of life which will be a shift for all humanity who is going to ask the difficult questions that will be incredibly valuable and serve as the foundation for our building back better?

We are used to leaders (our governments, our CEO’s, our Academic experts) asking the questions that our attention is focused on but the very foundation of their leadership is built on questions from the past (pre Covid 19) not the future.

Lets take the event industry as an example. Who is going to ask questions like;

‘Can we provide a good enough quality of human experience for people to want to attend face to face events’

Or

‘What are the new human skill sets (eg building trust via technology rather than face to face) that our industry could lead the world with’

I wonder if it is everyone’s job to ask the difficult questions and I will start with the difficult question I keep wondering about- ‘Will the leadership of the event industry be able to ask the difficult questions to create a foundation to build back better’ (and you could replace event industry with any sector or government or leader of your choice).