Questions Are the Answer - A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life (Gregersen Hal B.)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

2018 Nautilus Book Awards Silver WinnerWhat if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problemin your workplace, community, or home lifejust by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success in business and leadership is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to JeffBezoswhose relentless approach to problem solving has fueled Amazon's exponential growth: Getting the right question is key to getting the right answer. Great questions like these have a catalytic qualitythat is, they dissolve barriers to strategic thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clearbut it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers
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