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Laura Gassner Otting: Stop Asking ‘How Can I Help?’
It seems like such an innocuous and kind question: “How can I help?” But author Laura Gassner Otting says it’s the wrong one to be asking. Often, we’re limited in our perspective and driven by our egos.
Instead, she says, we can get better results—for ourselves, others, and the world—by shifting from asking “How can I help?” to “What needs to happen?”