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A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger
3.84 AVERAGE
102 reviews for:
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger
3.84 AVERAGE
I recently wrote an article for my company based on the questions poised in this book.
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http://www.applicantpro.com/articles/power-question-hr/
Check it out!
http://www.applicantpro.com/articles/power-question-hr/
Read this one for our work bookclub. Questioning is a powerful thing that we slowly stop using to discover the world around us. So much can be gained by asking the right questions!
Many interesting points and methods for questioning, but another book that should have stayed a blog
I listened to the audiobook version of this book and LOVED it. It was a great listen and the shorter stories/case studies throughout made it almost more like listening to a podcast, which made it easy to follow and okay if every once in awhile you zoned out.
So many of the worlds greatest innovations come from someone asking why there isn't a better way, a better design, a better process. This book really gets you thinking about why we as adults rarely ask questions yet very young children ask hundreds of questions a day, many of which end up being the simple questions we as adults never thought to ask yet might inspire us to make a change.
After listening to this book, I find myself not only more willing and excited to ask questions, but more aware of when I should be questioning.
Love this book as both a personal and professional development book. Plus it is pretty entertaining as well.
So many of the worlds greatest innovations come from someone asking why there isn't a better way, a better design, a better process. This book really gets you thinking about why we as adults rarely ask questions yet very young children ask hundreds of questions a day, many of which end up being the simple questions we as adults never thought to ask yet might inspire us to make a change.
After listening to this book, I find myself not only more willing and excited to ask questions, but more aware of when I should be questioning.
Love this book as both a personal and professional development book. Plus it is pretty entertaining as well.
A More Beautiful Question is a flashy journey through the power of questioning to spark dialog, to bring people together, to upset the world, and too innovate. Berger synthesizes a lot of experience as journalist to look at the role that questioning plays in creativity, and develops a simple model based around "Why?-->What If?-->How?"
This book is best when it's selling ideas: Montessori schools as an antidote to how public schools beat questioning out of kids, the people at The Right Question Institute and IDEO. However, it commits the all-too-common error of assuming that because Silicon Valley people are rich, they are also wise. Berger tries to lay out a hagiographic account of heroically questioning tech founders, which doesn't match up with the actually process of innovation, or the very obvious limits to Silicon Valley ideology. Protip for Uber and AirBNB, wholesale violation of the law is not a business model. And likewise for Google and Facebook, advertising is not a human net good.
Also, questioning is hard. Trust me, as a PhD social scientist the most important part of a project is setting up your research question in a way that is both impactful and doable. Questioning is an action, but it also seems to be a behavior characteristic of a questioning mindset. Why do we stop asking questions? What if we never stopped? How do we ask questions again? This book says the answer is a kind of California zen. I'm less sure.
This book is best when it's selling ideas: Montessori schools as an antidote to how public schools beat questioning out of kids, the people at The Right Question Institute and IDEO. However, it commits the all-too-common error of assuming that because Silicon Valley people are rich, they are also wise. Berger tries to lay out a hagiographic account of heroically questioning tech founders, which doesn't match up with the actually process of innovation, or the very obvious limits to Silicon Valley ideology. Protip for Uber and AirBNB, wholesale violation of the law is not a business model. And likewise for Google and Facebook, advertising is not a human net good.
Also, questioning is hard. Trust me, as a PhD social scientist the most important part of a project is setting up your research question in a way that is both impactful and doable. Questioning is an action, but it also seems to be a behavior characteristic of a questioning mindset. Why do we stop asking questions? What if we never stopped? How do we ask questions again? This book says the answer is a kind of California zen. I'm less sure.
Really interesting look at how questions can turn life, business, education etc upside down.
Focusing more on getting back to our roots on asking questions than about a specific question, "A More Beautiful Question" focuses around how to return to place where we question the world around us. From an early age we're asking questions about everything around us, but somehow we stop doing that. I enjoyed the very "growth mindset" approach to questioning, but many of the examples given were more focused around innovating and entrepreneurship than more practical examples.
It's just not new information to me, not presented in an uncommon way. It basically puts critical thinking into business, entrepreneurship.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Too corporate