A Tool for These Uncertain Times
It is especially important in these times to embrace a “questioning mindset”—an attitude or disposition that is curious, open to new information, and willing to ask challenging questions.
Warren Berger
Innovation expert and questionologist Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. He is the author or co-author of 12 books, including his three books about the power of questioning: BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry, THE BOOK OF BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead, and A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. Warren’s writing appears regularly in Psychology Today, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times. He lives in New York. Follow him on Twitter at @GlimmerGuy and subscribe to his blog posts.
The power of questioning
Guest post by Daisy Azer: “As I was reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, I was struck by the number of times the idea of questioning came up. Isn’t it funny how that happens in life? You start thinking about something and it pops up all over the place doesn’t it? But then again, it could just be that questioning is absolutely fundamental to better outcomes….”
The Olympics as a “Beautiful Question”
Plus, the story (and question) behind the amazing “blade runner” With the 2012 Summer Olympics having just concluded, I wanted to mention two points that tie in with the “Beautiful Questions” theme. The first point is that the Olympics is, itself, an ongoing endeavor to answer a beautiful question. The question was raised by Baron […]
When things go wrong, how do we bounce back?
Andrew Zolli’s book Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back looks at what happens when companies, communities or complex systems (such as our financial system) encounter unforeseen shocks and disruptions? What enables them to recover instead of falling apart?
Ask why five times
The process of asking The 5 Whys, and how it can be used in almost any type of creative endeavor—including makes sense of your own life.
A question that defined a life
If you’re looking for an example of what I would call a “beautiful question”—a question that takes on a big and important idea, one that causes people to step back and re-assess the way they think—consider King’s famous question, “Can we all get along?”
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