by Warren Berger | Questionology
How do you improve a question? I’m sure there are many potential answers to that, but in thinking about it, I came up with these eight ways to take an existing question and make it better: Open it up. If you want something more than a yes or no answer, take a closed...
by Warren Berger | Leadership
The philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the thing you have long taken for granted.” So let’s apply this to the corporate mission statement—something that is often taken for granted,...
by Warren Berger | Questionology
A beautiful question, as described in fuller detail on the brief What is a Beautiful Question page, is defined as “An ambitious yet actionable question that can shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about...
by Warren Berger | Leadership, Questionology
I highly recommend the excellent book Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by the late Edgar H. Schein. The author was a Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a recognized expert on organizational cultures...
by Warren Berger | Life, Questionology
With every new year, people resolve to make changes in their lives. But I’m convinced it would make sense for people to swap out their traditional resolutions for questions—specifically, questions that are designed to spark changes in behavior. For lack of a better...
