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Politics fundamentally is much the same as most things from meetings to hammers. Three questions should always be asked:

1. What is the desired outcome? What would constitute success?

2. Why is this outcome desired? What's the reason for it?

3. How does what you are doing, or proposing to do, contribute to achieving this outcome?

If someone can't immediately answer those three questions, without needing time to come up with answers, then quite simply the thing that's being done ought not be being done. If you don't know why you're having a meeting, if you don't know why you're holding a hammer, if you don't know why you're driving down whatever road, if you don't know why you're seeking election to parliament or trying to get some policy implemented then quite simply it's time wasting at best, downright dangerous at worst.

I suspect quite a few of our politicians would struggle to answer these questions.

Those three questions work with just about anything by the way.