Hal Gregersen

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 Jeff Bezos whose relentless approach to problem solving has fueled Amazons 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, shouldnt 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 questionsand breakthrough insightsand how anyone can create them.This book delivers the insights Gregersen gained in his research, offering a powerful framework for developing your own creative thinking.A Proven Method: Learn the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions, based on insights from over 200 interviews with creative thinkers. Better Questions, Better Answers: Discover why the most vexing problems at work and home can be unlocked simply by reframing the inquiry. Overcome Creative Blocks: Identify and dissolve the hidden barriers in your own thinking that prevent you from seeing new and accelerated pathways to a solution. Lessons from Innovators: See how leaders from Amazons Jeff Bezos to GoldieBlox founder Debbie Sterling used catalytic questions to fuel their exponential growth.

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 exito cualquier proyecto, desde la concepcion de una idea hasta su culminacion.Mediante la identificacion de las caracteristicas propias de algunos de los mejores innovadores del mundo como los fundadores de Amazon, Apple, Google, Skype y el grupo Virgin, los autores destacan cinco habilidades que distinguen a los empresarios y directivos innovadores del ejecutivo corriente:· Asociacion· Cuestionamiento· Observacion· Networking· Experimentacion Una vez dominadas estas competencias, los autores explican como puede concebir nuevas ideas, colaborar con colegas para implementarlas y crear habilidades de innovacion que potencien la competitividad de su organizacion.Esta ventaja innovadora puede traducirse en un significativo incremento del valor de las acciones de su compañia una prima de innovacion que solo puede generarse mediante la insercion del valor de la innovacion en las personas, procesos y directrices que conforman su organizacion.Practico y provocador, El ADN del innovador es un referente esencial para las personas y los equipos que quieran fortalecer sus habilidades innovadoras.