What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?
Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success 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 Jeff Bezos whose 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 quality—that is, they dissolve barriers to creative 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 clear—but 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. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights—and how anyone can create them.

Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life

Business & Money

Gregersen, Hal

Business Culture

Harper Business

As many as 60% of organizational change initiatives fail. This means that many normally successful, motivated, and determined managers nonetheless struggle to lead change effectively. Most of those leadership failures share a common cause: managers mistakenly believe that organizational change is brought about by changing the organization. The truth is this: organizations change only as much or as fast as individuals change. And, to change individual behavior, you must first change the mental maps guiding that behavior. In It Starts with One, Third Edition, J. Stewart Black identifies the three critical "brain barriers" managers must break through in order to start, deepen, and sustain needed change. With new cases, examples, and tools for executing successful change initiatives, this edition dives even more deeply into the personal aspects of leading strategic change – as well as the unique challenges posed by driving change in global business environments. One step at a time, Black shows how to use their tools and techniques to bring solutions to life -- and transform change from a hope to a profitable reality.

It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations

Black, J.

Management & Leadership

Pearson FT Press

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

You can be as innovative and impactful — if you can change your behaviors to improve your creative impact. In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact. By identifying behaviors of the world’s best innovators — from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Group — the authors outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting. Once you master these competencies, the authors explain how you can generate ideas, collaborate with colleagues to implement them, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. That innovation advantage can translate into a premium in your company’s stock price — an innovation premium — that is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organization’s people, processes, and guiding philosophies. Practical and provocative, The Innovator’s DNA is an essential resource for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

Christensen, Clayton M.

Dyer, Jeff

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You can be as innovative and impactful — if you can change your behaviors to improve your creative impact.  In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact.   By identifying behaviors of the world’s best innovators — from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Group — the authors outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting.  Once you master these competencies, the authors explain how you can generate ideas, collaborate with colleagues to implement them, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. That innovation advantage can translate into a premium in your company’s stock price — an innovation premium — that is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organization’s people, processes, and guiding philosophies.     Practical and provocative, The Innovator’s DNA is an essential resource for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

A new classic, recommended by leaders and media around the world
In this bestselling book, authors Jeff Dyer (Innovation Capital and The Innovator's Method), Hal Gregersen (Questions Are the Answer), and Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, and How Will You Measure Your Life?) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact.
By identifying the winning behaviors of the world's best innovators--from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Tesla, and Salesforce--Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. Through real-world stories, the authors show you how to evaluate and develop your own innovator's "DNA code," including advice for how you can use the five skills to generate ideas, collaborate with colleagues to implement them, and sharpen your organization's competitive edge by building innovation skills into its culture. This innovation advantage will translate into a premium in your company's stock price--an innovation premium--which is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organization's people, processes, and guiding philosophies. This book shows you how.
Now updated with a new preface and fresh examples, The Innovator's DNA is more than ever the essential resource for individuals, managers, and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

The Innovator's DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

Harvard Business Review Press

El ADN del innovador, de Jeff H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen y Clayton M. Christensen, incide sobre la innovación disruptiva para mostrar cómo se pueden desarrollar las habilidades necesarias que permitan consolidar con éxito cualquier proyecto, desde la concepción de una idea hasta su culminación. Mediante la identificación de las características propias de algunos de los mejores innovadores del mundo, como los fundadores de Apple, Google, Skype y el grupo Virgin, los autores destacan cinco habilidades que distinguen a los empresarios y directivos innovadores del ejecutivo corriente:· Asociación· Cuestionamiento· Observación· Networking· Experimentación Una vez dominadas estas competencias, los autores explican cómo puede concebir nuevas ideas, colaborar con colegas para implementarlas y crear habilidades de innovación que potencien la competitividad de su organización. Esta ventaja innovadora puede traducirse en un significativo incremento del valor de las acciones de su compañía, una prima de innovación, que sólo puede generarse mediante la inserción del valor de la innovación en las personas, procesos y directrices que conforman su organización. Práctico y provocador, El ADN del innovador es un referente esencial para las personas y los equipos que quieran fortalecer sus habilidades innovadoras.

El ADN del innovador: Claves para dominar las cinco habilidades que necesitan los innovadores

Deusto

Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life (Chinese Edition)

時報出版

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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life

It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

The Innovator's DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

El ADN del innovador: Claves para dominar las cinco habilidades que necesitan los innovadores

Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life (Chinese Edition)