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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week, I'm eager to replay a conversation with Hal Gregersen. Hal is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His book, Questions Are the Answer, builds on 200+ interviews with renowned business, technology, education, government, social enterprise, and artistic leaders. Ranked one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Hal regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars and transformational coaching experiences. He has co-authored ten books and is the author of more than 50 articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change (with more than 10,000 citations by other scholars). His research has been highlighted in global media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who wants to get better and rekindle his or her curiosity! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Hal teaches us all about asking questions and really listening to the answers. Are you stopping and reflecting on how many and what kinds of questions you ask? Are you getting and acting on good feedback? Hal helps us pause and take a moment to rediscover our child-like curiosity and move forward as better leaders, better employees, and better humans! WHAT I LOVE MOST… Hal's 24-hour question audit. We all should be doing this! Running time: 36:02 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani Online: LinkedIn Facebook X Find Hal Online: LinkedIn X Hal's Website: halgregersen.com Hal's Book: Questions Are the Answer
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, former Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, and a globally recognized thought leader on leadership and innovation. He's the author of several books, including Questions Are The Answer, where he shares a powerful approach to fostering radical innovation by encouraging inquiry. He is also a sought after speaker and lecturer who has spoken to audiences all over the world. In this classic episode, Hal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about his remarkable leadership career and how questioning drives innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Looking for a new way to solve problems? Join us as we talk with Hal Gregersen, author of the book, "Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life". It's based on interviews with leaders like Pixar founder Ed Catmull and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Hal is well-known as an innovation and leadership guru who is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His website is https://halgregersen.com/ Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you'll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify's single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.
In this episode, Hal Gregersen, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, and ranked as one of the world's 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50, discusses the importance of rethinking assumptions and approaches in a complex and rapidly changing world.In this interview with ELEVATION BARN founder and CEO, Will Travis, Hal emphasizes the need for leaders to have long-term intent and to embrace exponential technologies. He also highlights the significance of truth-seeking mechanisms and the ability to see deeply and think deeply.Gregersen encourages leaders to ask better questions, challenge the status quo, and engage in collaborative problem-solving. He emphasizes the importance of navigating uncertainty and embracing the unexpected.Overall, the episode emphasizes the need for leaders to rethink their mindset and strategies to navigate the challenges of the future.
Looking for a new way to solve problems? Join us as we talk with Hal Gregersen, author of the book, "Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life". It's based on interviews with leaders like Pixar founder Ed Catmull and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Hal is well-known as an innovation and leadership guru who is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His website is https://halgregersen.com/
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, former Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, and a globally recognized thought leader on leadership and innovation. He's the author of several books, including Questions Are The Answer, where he shares a powerful approach to fostering radical innovation by encouraging inquiry. He is also a sought after speaker and lecturer who has spoken to audiences all over the world. Hal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about his remarkable leadership career and how questioning drives innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I'm working on building community at the moment, and I've noticed I have two types to focus on. The first is a wider net - I know a lot of people a little bit, and I'd like to know some of them more. Inspired by the book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, I've been hosting monthly events where I pull everyone together and ask them all to answer a question, which effectively seeds the next round of introductions and conversation. The second type of community is a deeper vessel. I invite other men at about the same stage of life as me, and we discuss what it means to be an elder in our different worlds. Here, my hope is that I'm asked questions that'll help call me forth. Two different communities, but for each, good questions right at their heart. Hal Gregersen is a man who loves questions, perhaps even more than I do. He's dedicated his life to it as an author, speaker, and former Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center. Hal and I both believe that questioning can transform the future of learning and make the world a better place. Hal reads an article titled, ‘Let Your Life Speak' by Parker Palmer. [reading begins at 21:20] Hear us discuss: The greatest gift that trust brings. [5:04] | Maintaining an open heart and a healthy relationship with trust. [6:57] | How heartbreak can sometimes be a good thing: “Life is fleeting; it comes and goes faster than we think.” [31:05] | The feeling of deep gladness: “When you have that moment where eyes light up - that's deep gladness.” [36:59] | Alexander Papaderos, Elie Wiesel, & the meaning of life: “For a lot of my life, I was trying to get rid of this bad part of my past instead of understanding and embracing it … it's not only okay, but it's you.” [40:35]
Kendall Square, situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has earned the reputation of being "the most innovative square mile on the planet." It serves as a vibrant epicentre for life sciences, housing renowned companies such as Biogen, Moderna, Pfizer, Takeda, and many others. Additionally, it stands as a prominent hub for technology, with giants like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple occupying substantial portions of valuable office space within its bounds. The square is also home to a thriving community of startups, with convenient proximity to leading venture capital firms. Moreover, its proximity to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) further enhances its status as a centre for cutting-edge ideas. In his book "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub," Robert Buderi shares interesting accounts of visionary innovators and their groundbreaking creations, spanning a remarkable two centuries. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with Robert Buderi, exploring the distinctive ecosystem that defines Kendall Square. We discuss various cycles of transformation and reinvention that have propelled its evolution over time. Robert Buderi is an author, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is the author of “Engines of Tomorrow, The Invention That Changed the World”, and other books. He is former Editor-in-Chief of “Technology Review”, and founder of the media company Xconomy. We begin our conversation by talking about Kendall Square's geography, which means where it's located, and its history as a place known for business and innovation. We then take a closer look at the first innovators who chose Kendall Square to start their businesses and create new products and services. We also talk about the advantages of having important academic and research institutions close by and explore the relationship between industry and academia. After that, we shift our focus to the present and talk about what Kendall Square is like today. We explore the different industries, products, and services that are based there. Overall, this is an interesting and informative discussion. Complement this discussion with ““The Technology Trap” and the Future of Work” with Dr Carl Frey” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2019/10/the-technology-trap-and-the-future-of-work-with-dr-carl-frey/ And then listen to “Asking Better Questions for Creative Problem Solving, Innovation and Effective Leadership with Hal Gregersen” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/02/asking-better-questions-for-creative-problem-solving-innovation-and-effective-leadership-with-hal-gregersen/
Christina Wallace discusses the benefits of having a diverse work portfolio that will help you weather any storm. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to diversify your work 2) How to lessen friction and hit your flow 3) The three questions that surface your hidden needs Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep864 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT CHRISTINA — Christina Wallace is a human Venn diagram with a career at the intersection of business, technology and the arts. A writer, podcaster, serial entrepreneur, and erstwhile theater producer, Christina spent a decade building businesses in New York City. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, an active startup mentor, and angel investor. Christina holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and theater studies from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard. In her free time she likes to sing in choirs, climb mountains, and run marathons (slowly). She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their two energetic children. • Book: The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card • Instagram: Christina Wallace • LinkedIn: Christina Wallace • Website: PortfolioLife.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower by Morra Aarons-Mele• Book: The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton ChristensenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Activar habilidades de innovación nos va a permitir potenciar nuestras empresas.Esto puede traducirse en un significativo incremento del valor de tu empresa, mediante la innovación en personas, procesos y productos o servicios.En este episodio analizo el libro El ADN del Innovador (The Innovator's DNA, 2011), de Hal Gregersen, Jeff Dyer y Clayton Christensen, en el que descubrimos las 5 habilidades que desarrollan los emprendedores y empresarios más disruptivos e innovadores del mercado... y cómo nosotros podemos desarrollar esas mismas 5 habilidades.Aquí puedes conseguir este libro:AQUÍ TIENES EL LIBRO "El ADN del Innovador": https://geni.us/adninnovador En esta página encuentras las notas del episodio y todos los enlaces mencionados:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/282Ah! ¿Quieres recibir cada semana por email, gratis, estrategias y tácticas para ser mejor empleado, emprendedor y empresario? Suscríbete a mi email semanal aquí:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/newsletter ¿Quieres saber cómo aumentar tu velocidad de lectura? Mírate este vídeo y quizás hasta la dupliques en sólo 20 minutos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VqCZlLuEc En Youtube y en Instagram estamos publicando también contenido exclusivo. Suscríbete ahora:Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNetInstagram: https://instagram.com/librosparaemprendedores Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en:- Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ). This content is under Fair Use:Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Activar habilidades de innovación nos va a permitir potenciar nuestras empresas.Esto puede traducirse en un significativo incremento del valor de tu empresa, mediante la innovación en personas, procesos y productos o servicios.En este episodio analizo el libro El ADN del Innovador (The Innovator's DNA, 2011), de Hal Gregersen, Jeff Dyer y Clayton Christensen, en el que descubrimos las 5 habilidades que desarrollan los emprendedores y empresarios más disruptivos e innovadores del mercado... y cómo nosotros podemos desarrollar esas mismas 5 habilidades.Aquí puedes conseguir este libro:AQUÍ TIENES EL LIBRO "El ADN del Innovador": https://geni.us/adninnovador En esta página encuentras las notas del episodio y todos los enlaces mencionados:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/282Ah! ¿Quieres recibir cada semana por email, gratis, estrategias y tácticas para ser mejor empleado, emprendedor y empresario? Suscríbete a mi email semanal aquí:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/newsletter ¿Quieres saber cómo aumentar tu velocidad de lectura? Mírate este vídeo y quizás hasta la dupliques en sólo 20 minutos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VqCZlLuEc En Youtube y en Instagram estamos publicando también contenido exclusivo. Suscríbete ahora:Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNetInstagram: https://instagram.com/librosparaemprendedores Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en:- Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ). This content is under Fair Use:Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The genesis of today's book centred on a question posed years ago to “disruptive technologies” coauthor Clayton Christensen: where do disruptive business models come from? Christensen's best-selling books, The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution, conveyed important insight into the characteristics of disruptive technologies, business models, and companies. Today's book emerged from an eight-year collaborative study in which our guest sought a richer understanding of disruptive innovators —who they are and the innovative companies they create. The project's primary purpose was to uncover the origins of innovative—and often disruptive— business ideas. Most of us think creativity is an entirely cognitive skill; it all happens in the brain. A critical insight from our research is that one's ability to generate innovative ideas is not merely a function of the mind but also a function of behaviours. This is good news for us all because it means we can improve our creative impact if we change our behaviours We welcome Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator's DNA. Find Hal here: https://halgregersen.com
Hal Gregersen, bestselling author and Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Leadership at MIT, joins our CEO Alex Pascal to explain why he believes asking questions to be the key when it comes to tapping into our inquisitive creativity. Could questions be the answer? Hal certainly thinks so. In this episode, he explains why the most effective global leaders are more likely to be asking questions than answering them. In these times of rapid transformation, Hal proposes that openness and self-reflection have become superpowers. He also justifies his belief that questioning is key to making the world a better place. Acknowledging that change processes often don't work or don't end as we expect them to, Hal suggests that the most effective method of implementing transformation is by changing individuals. In conversation with Alex, he shares his suggestions about how to help clients accept the invitation to change, even when it goes against their natural instincts.Since Hal is an expert on innovation, Alex takes the opportunity to ask him how AI may be used to augment human capabilities of questioning. Hal has some fascinating ideas about how to interact with this leading-edge technology so that it provokes new forms of creativity.Listen in to discover the qualities that today's leaders need to succeed and find out how to get to the right answer by asking the right questions.
We live in an age of increasing complexity and uncertainty. We live in a time when humanity faces extremely complex challenges. Our ability, or lack thereof, to create solutions to such extremely complicated challenges may determine our long-term survival as a civilization. The question is: is our existing style of thinking adequate, or do we require a new style of thinking in order to innovate and lead into the future. In their recent book Julio Ottino and Bruce Mau make a case for “The Nexus”, a radically new way of thinking — one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. In this episode or Bridging the Gaps I speak with Julio Ottino who explains “the Nexus” and guides us how to embrace the powerful idea of complementarity, where opposing extremes coexist. We discuss how blurring the lines between the three major realms of human creation — art, technology, and science — results in a significant expansion of thinking spaces and a richness of potential ideas. Julio Ottino is Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, in Illinois. He is also the founding co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems. He is a thought leader, author, artist, and internationally recognized researcher in chaos theory and complex systems whose work has been featured in “Nature”, “Science”, and “Scientific American”. We begin our discussion by looking back at the time before the divergence of disciplines and how key figures in science immensely benefited from talents and skills in a variety of fields. Then we talk about how, when, and why the disciplines diverged. We delve into the concept of "the Nexus" and discuss whole-brain thinking. The book is jam-packed with wonderful photographs and diagrams. I ask Professor Ottino to describe the process that he followed to write this book. This has been a wonderful discussion. Complement this discussion with “Asking Better Questions for Creative Problem Solving, Innovation and Effective Leadership with Hal Gregersen” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/02/asking-better-questions-for-creative-problem-solving-innovation-and-effective-leadership-with-hal-gregersen/ And with ““Learning How to Learn”: Techniques to Help You Learn with Dr Barbra Oakley” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/01/learning-how-to-learn-techniques-to-help-you-learn-with-dr-barbra-oakley-classic/ And the listen to “Multiple Intelligences, Future Minds and Educating The App Generation: A discussion with Dr Howard Gardner” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/07/multiple-intelligences-future-minds-and-educating-the-app-generation-a-discussion-with-dr-howard-gardner/
Can living scientifically empower us to navigate the complexities of today's complex and unpredictable world? Can the joy of critical thinking and the effectiveness of the scientific method assist us in making better decisions? Can living a more rational life help us navigate modern life more confidently? In his new book “The Joy of Science” acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do. He shows how the fundamental principles at the heart of scientific thinking, as well as the scientific process, are profoundly relevant to the perplexing times we live in and the tough choices we make. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with professor Jim Al-Khalili and we thoroughly discuss very interesting and deeply intriguing ideas that he presents in this book. Professor Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics as well as a university chair in the public engagement in science. He is a prominent author, broadcaster and one of Britain's best-known science communicators. I start our discussion with the question that how the discipline of science should be perceived. We acknowledge that there are many ways scientific work is carried out in many different disciplines. We discuss the issue of “relative truth” and how biases held by individuals impact their opinions and distort their view and lead them to their own version of truth. We explore how science deals with the issue of relative truth. We probe how the scientific method enables us to continue researching in the presence of uncertainty. We investigate the impact of misinformation and disinformation on the disciple and cause of science. We also touch upon how rational humans can become; can we think rationally only up to certain point. We discuss in detail how scientific information should be presented to policy makers that should enable and empower them to make better decisions and to make the right choices. Finally, I ask Professor Jim Al-Khalili to tell us about his research in the field of open quantum systems. This has been a fantastic discussion. Complement this with “Asking Better Questions for Creative Problem Solving, Innovation and Effective Leadership with Hal Gregersen” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/02/asking-better-questions-for-creative-problem-solving-innovation-and-effective-leadership-with-hal-gregersen/ And then listen to “On Public Communication of Science and Technology with Professor Bruce Lewenstein” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/02/on-public-communication-of-science-and-technology-with-professor-bruce-lewenstein/
Every problem or issue raises new questions, which must be correctly answered in order to address the problem or resolve the issue. What if we could get a better answer to our most troublesome problem—at work or at home—just by altering the question? If asking right questions is essential for creative problem solving and innovation, and for effective leadership, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at right questions? In his book “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life” Hal Gregersen gives many examples of people who had used questions in specific ways to solve problems. He gives many examples of how managers have used questioning in a variety of ways to obtain better results and provides additional information sources on key topics for those who want to dig deeper. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps I speak with Hal Gregersen. Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a cofounder of the Innovator's DNA consulting group. He is a prolific author and a motivational speaker, and has helped leaders around the world to create cultures of fearless inquiry and to transform their organizations into innovative powerhouses. He is one of the authors of “The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” a book cited by managers, creative problem-solvers and leaders around the world as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation. I open the discussion by asking Hal Gregersen about the evolving and ever changing landscape of leadership. We then discuss catalytic and recursive questions. How to learn to ask the right questions is essential for creative problem solving; we discuss this. Although the primary focus of this discussion is on Gregersen's book “Questions are Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life”, we do touch upon the book that he co-authored “The innovator's DNA: Mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators''. I ask him to outline, compare and rate these five skills of disruptive innovators. We then discuss how leadership should evolve in this age of “working from home”. Finally I ask him for tips and suggestions for our young listeners and for future leaders; what skills they should acquire so that they are ready to meet future challenges. This has been a fascinating and highly informative discussion. Complement this discussion with “Multiple Intelligences, Future Minds and Educating The App Generation: A discussion with Dr Howard Gardner” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/07/multiple-intelligences-future-minds-and-educating-the-app-generation-a-discussion-with-dr-howard-gardner/ and then listen to “Growth Mindset: A Must Have Tool for Success with Professor Carol Dweck” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/01/growth-mindset-a-must-have-tool-for-success/
In this episode I share something I've been noticing and working through in my life: the Either/Or Trap of cyclical thinking. I explain: What the Either/Or Trap is and how it shows up for me and some of my clients. What typically keeps you stuck in the binary of only two answers to a situation or problem. How my clients and I have worked through the challenge of only seeing two answers and finding more possible options. The tool and process I use to help move out of the cyclical Either/Or thought loop and into more choice. The book I referenced: "Questions Are The Answer" by Hal Gregersen. If you want to let me know how this tool worked out for you, feel free to write me at: krista@kristaoverlycoaching.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/older-and-bolder/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/older-and-bolder/support
How can we channel the power of inquiry to make better decisions and move forward in an era of constant change and transition? This week I am delighted to be joined by Hal Gregersen to go deeper on that very subject. Hal is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a recipient of the Thinkers50 #1 leadership award and author of ten books. This conversation was recorded on May 17th, 2021.
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He joined Bobby to talk about how to ask the right questions, and how it can drive change. Down to Business with Bobby Kerr Listen and subscribe to Down to Business with Bobby Kerr on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.
Nesta edição do CBN Inovação, Evandro Milet comenta as características que distinguem os líderes inovadores no mercado. O ponto de partida para a discussão é o livro "DNA do Inovador: Dominando as 5 habilidades dos inovadores de ruptura". Escrita pelo considerado guru da inovação, Clayton M. Christensen, com colaboração de Hal Gregersen e Jeff Dyer, a obra explica como desenvolver cinco competências fundamentais para ser um profissional inovador. Ouça!
What is the number one predictor of happiness? Plus, the story of Valentine and the power of romance; Shun Fujimoto on pushing through ultimate pain to find your dreams; Tony Robbins and some of the best marriage and relationship advice you will hear; Paul Harvey and his article "If I Were The Devil"; the meaning behind 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter), and how understanding it will change your life; how to literally fix the MOST UNATTRACTIVE TRAIT in your life (it takes one decision); Andrew Newberg on the power of language patterns; six strategies to fix your relationship (and stop if from going off course); Hal Gregersen's three power questions; and 80 year Harvard study on happiness summarized in FIVE WORDS; one destructive force in relationships; Mel Robbins on 30 seconds that can change your life (a simple two-step process you can utilize immediately); and Siri Lindley on how one phone call and the right words and intention erased decades of pain on both sides of a relationship.
In this episode of AFP Conversations, Jim Kaitz, CEO of AFP, is joined by author, lecturer, and AFP FinNext Virtual Conference Opening Keynote, Hal Gregersen to preview his keynote: "Navigating Uncertainty Through the Power of Inquiry." Ranked as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen has dedicated his career to finding out what kind of skills, corporate culture and practices produce innovative powerhouses. Gregersen is the Opening Keynote at FinNext Virtual 2021, taking place March 23 - 25. Click here to register for the event.
What is the number one predictor of happiness? Plus, the story of Valentine and the power of romance; Shun Fujimoto on pushing through ultimate pain to find your dreams; Tony Robbins and some of the best marriage and relationship advice you will hear; Paul Harvey and his article "If I Were The Devil"; the meaning behind 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter), and how understanding it will change your life; how to literally fix the MOST UNATTRACTIVE TRAIT in your life (it takes one decision); Andrew Newberg on the power of language patterns; six strategies to fix your relationship (and stop if from going off course); Hal Gregersen's three power questions; and 80 year Harvard study on happiness summarized in FIVE WORDS; one destructive force in relationships; Mel Robbins on 30 seconds that can change your life (a simple two-step process you can utilize immediately); and Siri Lindley on how one phone call and the right words and intention erased decades of pain on both sides of a relationship.
Episode Overview Andy speaks to Julian Saipe, former opera singer, entrepreneur, business leader, and now an international executive coach and member of the Forbes Coaches Council about the power, benefits and pitfalls of bringing a unified purpose to a business. Julian talks about his experiences of being an entrepreneur and his purpose journey from the solo "vanity trip" to an involving and inspiring collective approach, as he recalls taking Zafferano, one of London's highly acclaimed food and event management brands, from conception to exit over 15 years. In this conversation, they cover topics like opera (!), singing for the Queen Mum, dreams, humanity, authenticity, employee engagement, the role of straplines, reinventing organisations, purpose as a 100 year project and examine what might be behind a leader's struggle to embrace and make the most of having a unifying purpose driving their business forwards. Plus, Julian leaves behind his 3 Sticky Notes on the virtual walls of the Sticky From The Inside studio, in an attempt to help you successfully think about and develop your own unifying purpose. A list of useful links and a full transcript of the show can be found lower down in these Show Notes. Join The Conversation Find me on LinkedIn here Follow the Podcast on Instagram here Follow the Podcast on Twitter here Check out the Bizjuicer website here Download the podcast here Useful Links Check out Julian Saipe's website here Follow Julian Saipe on Twitter here Follow Julian Saipe on LinkedIn here Find out more about Hal Gregersen here See and buy "Questions Are The Answer" by Hal Gregersen on Amazon here Follow Frederic Laloux on Twitter here Follow Frederic Laloux on LinkedIn here See and buy "Reinventing Organisations" by Frederic Laloux on Amazon here The Full Podcast Transcript Here's a full transcript of the whole episode, so you can check out what we said in more detail. It was originally automated, but I've done my best to tidy it up, and I think it's pretty accurate, but if there are errors please accept my apologies :) See the full episode transcript here
In order for financial advisors to accept change, they have to be aware that change is needed. Today, Matt and guest Bill Hortz, the founder and dean of the Institute for Innovation Development, discuss the high need for advisors to embrace innovation, considering that the financial services industry will see more change in the next three years than we’ve seen in the past 30. Bill dives into what changes are on the horizon in financial services, how to prioritize areas of innovation in your practice, and how successful industry leaders have implemented innovation into their businesses! In this episode, you will learn: How to adapt to the modern change that’s occurring at a hyper rate How the Institute for Innovation Development equips advisors for change Which areas of financial services are expected to change rapidly in the next two to three years The difference between innovation and technology and what it really means to be innovative Ways for advisors to develop an innovative mindset The four most needed areas in financial services for deploying an innovative mindset And more! Listen now to learn how to embrace and apply innovation to your financial practice! Resources: Top Advisor Marketing | Bill Hortz on LinkedIn | Email Bill Hortz | Institute for Innovation Development | An Innovation Call To Arms For Financial Advisors by Bill Hortz | What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith | The Innovator's DNA by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen | Fix by Chris Kneeland, Ryan Gill, and Rob Howard | Little Black Stretchy Pants by Chip Wilson Brought to you by: iris.xyz
In this episode, we are joined by Hal Gregersen, author of The Innovator's DNA, to discuss his recent book, Questions are the Answer. Hal is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation and the Executive Director of the Leadership Center at MIT, and has previously taught at Dartmouth College, The World Economic Forum, and the London Business School. What was covered Why Hal believes most CEOs have trouble asking questions and how to pivot from answer-centric to question-led leadership. How to be a better leader by asking the ‘different, better question' and using the ‘power of the pause'. How Hal's question-first process of reframing of challenges can help us discover the winning solution. Key Takeaways and Learnings Associational thinking: how observing, networking, and experimenting helps the world's top leaders find novel solutions nobody has thought of before. Catalytic questions: why challenging our false assumptions of the world forces us to create new beliefs and act on our questions. Question bursts: why receiving no answers to our questions can help us to innovatively solve problems. Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode Get in touch with Hal via email, Twitter or LinkedIn Hal's website The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, a book by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, a book by Hal Gregersen MIT Leadership Center, website The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book by Douglas Adams Marc Benioff, Chairman & Co-CEO of Salesforce Principles: Life and Work, a book by Ray Dalio The Seat of the Soul, a book by Gary Zukav Player Piano: A Novel, a book by Kurt Vonnegut Brief Answers to the Big Questions, a book by Stephen Hawking Melinda Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Tony Robbins, website Sam Abell, National Geographic photographer
In this episode, we are joined by Hal Gregersen, author of The Innovator’s DNA, to discuss his latest book, Questions are the Answer. Hal is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation and the Executive Director of the Leadership Center at MIT, and has previously taught at Dartmouth College, The World Economic Forum, and […]
As part of our "Forbes Minute" series, spotlighting thought-provoking Forbes videos and their key takeaways, Dr. Westover explores Hal Gregersen's recent Forbes video, "The Four Behaviors of Innovative Leaders." See the full video and all of the details here: https://youtu.be/gmkcGqZIZp8. Drucker's keen insight about the power of questions has long been a guiding inspiration for Hal Gregersen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/halgregersen/). An innovation and leadership guru, Hal is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. While Hal's expertise expands across all areas of innovative leadership, asking the right questions cuts deeply across all of his work. He challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act to build a better, more creative world. To grasp how leaders find and ask the right questions – ones that disrupt the world – Hal's new book, “Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life” (Harper Collins, coming out later this year), builds on 200+ interviews with renowned business, technology, education, government, social enterprise, and artistic leaders. This question-centric project surfaces crucial insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -“Bursting the CEO Bubble: Why Executives Should Talk Less and Ask More” (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) – explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know – before it's too late. The second article from the project – “Better Brainstorming: Focus on Questions, Not Answers, for Breakthrough Insights” (March/April 2018 Harvard Business Review) – outlines how his unique Question Burst™ method can help anyone solve problems faster and better by asking nothing but questions about a vexing challenge for four fast and furious minutes. Hal is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience “Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making.” The course draws on Hal's two passions – photography and innovation–to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked consistently as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Hal regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars and transformational coaching experiences. He also works with a diverse set of companies to help them master the challenges of innovation and change, from Chanel to IBM to the World Economic Forum. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/
This week Beth and Taylor speak with Carly Valancy, CEO of the Valence Co. and co-creator of The Reach Out Party, about the importance of collaborating across disciplines and the incredible value we gain when we take the risk and reach out! Notes: www.experiencewin.com Instagram: @womensinvestmentnetwork | @taylorcolemanadams | @msbethmulholland Carly Valancy Book recommendations: Reach Out by Molly Beck, Questions Are the Answer by Hal Gregersen, Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott, The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh, and Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield Podcast recommendations: Invisibilia and Getting to "Yes, And" with Kelly Leonard Instagram: @valenceandco | @carlyvalancy Email: carly@valenceandco.com www.valenceandco.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/experiencewin/support
He is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research. He is passionate about exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and ultimately deliver positive powerful results. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. His most recent book, Questions Are the Answer, delivers insights about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions and how anyone can create them. His previous book, The Innovator’s DNA (with Jeff Dyer and the late Clayton Christensen), explored where disruptive innovations come from. Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Hal Gregersen. The Way I See It... Finding a Path Forward article can be found in our blog at NourGroup.com/Blog. Don't forget, I turn the show notes from these podcasts into more in-depth articles, so check them out in our Free, Member-Based community, Nour Forum. Join us at NourGroup.com/Forum. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-nour/message
While his biography is included here, let me just say how much I enjoyed getting to know the man behind this conversation! Hal Gregersen, I'm so grateful we're connected. Hal Gregersen, PhD, is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, and a renowned expert on leadership, innovation and creative culture–– dedicating his career to helping companies stay ahead in an accelerating world by teaching them how to implement a culture of inquiry and transform themselves into innovative powerhouses. Gregersen created a repeatable three-step methodology, the Question Burst, by which companies can build better problem solvers and enhance creative impact at all levels. The crux of Gregersen's argument is spelled out in his Nautilus award-winning book (based on 200+ interviews with catalytic questioners like Elon Musk and Orit Gadiesh),“Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life” (Harper Collins, 2018). While people are programmed to look for answers, the real catalyst for disruptive change is questioning. Gregersen argues that leaders can deliberately overhaul and transform cultures to habitually produce pioneering breakthroughs. His Question Burst method, along with other habits of productive inquiry, have helped redesign company cultures at Chanel, Daimler, Danone, Disney·Pixar, Fidelity, Genentech, Patagonia, Salesforce, and the World Economic Forum, among others. Gregersen also co-authored, with Clay Christensen and Jeff Dyer, “The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019), a guide to cultivating the discovery skills that CEOs and entrepreneurs rely on to build the most innovative companies in the world. Having interviewed 100+ ground-breaking leaders at the world's most innovative companies, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Salesforce's Marc Benioff, Gregersen draws on rigorous research (based on a database of +15,000 leaders) to successfully advise the world's largest corporations on transformation challenges. Ranked as one of the world's 20 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Gregersen regularly delivers thought-provoking, interactive keynotes and workshops and transformational coaching experiences. Along with ten books, Gregersen is the author of over fifty articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change (with over 10,000 citations by other scholars). His research has been highlighted in media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2020, Gregersen was named a Top 30 Global Guru.
"El ADN Innovador, es el libro que aborda el tema de la innovación y las ideas que permiten cuestionar aspectos fundamentales para revolucionar la industria y generar riqueza." El ADN Innovador, por Jeff H. Dyer, Hal Gregersen & Clayton Christensen.
No episódio 04 do NexoCast, os diretores Cristina Pacheco, Igor Drews e Rodrigo Castro recebem o consultor em estratégia, inovação e crescimento Maximiliano Carlomagno, sócio e fundador da Innoscience. A pauta é a jornada de inovação e as boas práticas de governança, e como essa combinação pode trazer resultados positivos para as empresas familiares. Durante a conversa, Max dá muitos insights e dicas de conteúdos, como os livros “DNA do Inovador”, de Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen e Hal Gregersen; “Sapiens”, Yuval Harari; “The Innovator's Hypothesis”, de Michael Schrage. E no quadro da dica imperdível, Maximiliano trouxe outra sugestão: o livro “Innovation Governance”, de Jean-Philippe DesChamps e Beebe Nelson, leitura fundamental para quem deseja se aprofundar na temática. O episódio foi gravado remotamente através da ferramenta Zoom Meetings e editado pela equipe técnica da Rádio União FM.
Our guest on the podcast is Carl Richards, who specializes in conveying sophisticated financial concepts in an easy-to-understand way--specifically, using a Sharpie. Carl is a Certified Financial Planner™ and creator of the Sketch Guy column in The New York Times. He’s also author of two books, The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money and The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money. In addition, he hosts the “Behavior Gap Radio” podcast and also co-hosts a podcast with financial-planning guru Michael Kitces called “Kitces and Carl.”BackgroundCarl Richards bioCarl Richards' booksCarl Richards articlesCarl Richards “Sketch Guy” column in The New York Times Behavior Gap Radio podcastKitces and Carl podcast“12 Simple Sketches That Perfectly Illustrate the Path to Wealth and Financial Happiness,” by Libby Kane and Libertina Brandt, Business Insider, July 22, 2019.The Behavior Gap“The Behavior Gap,” by Carl Richards. Medium.com. Oct. 18, 2018.“To Avoid the Biggest Investing Mistake, Stay Strong,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, March 26, 2013.“Yes, Numbers Matter in Financial Decisions, but So Do Emotions,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, May 8, 2017.Articulating and Achieving Goals“Goals As Guesses,” by Carl Richards, YouTube, Jan. 16, 2018. “The Magic of a Single Micro-Action,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2017. “A Simple Formula for Making Dreams Come True,” by Carl Richards, Medium.com, June 28, 2018.“Hal Gregersen Interview: Asking the Right Questions,” YouTube.com, April 8, 2018. Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, by Hal Gregersen, Harper Business, 2018. The Dan Sullivan Question, by Dan Sullivan, The Strategic Coach, 2009. “Your Future Should Be Bigger Than Your Past. Here’s How to Do It,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2018. “The First (and Last) Step to Financial Satisfaction? Defining ‘Enough’,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, May 1, 2017.“Setting Aside Shame and Blame in Financial Decisions,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, Sept. 8, 2015.“How to Talk About Money,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2018.“Look Inward to Determine Your Financial Values,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, April 20, 2015. “Where Does the Time Go? You Can Find Out, If You Dare,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, July 5, 2017.“Seeking More Fun? Examine the Returns on Your Time Investments,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, July 10, 2017. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chodron, Shambhala, 2016.“We Are All Normal,” Meir Statman, Morningstar The Long View podcast, Oct. 30, 2019. Finance for Normal People, by Meir Statman, Oxford University Press, 2019.Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, FSG Adult, 2013. “The Benefits of Getting an Icy Start to the Day,” by Carl Richards, The New York Times, March 14, 2016.
Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society. Today’s topic is innovation and strategic risk management — which also happens to be the title of the new RIMS Executive Report! The full title of the report is “Innovation + Strategic Risk Management: A Positive Pairing for a Better Future,” which was published on Risk Knowledge. The author of the report, Monica Merrifield, is also the guest of today’s show. Monica is the Principal Advisor of Strategic Risk and Innovation for the YMCA as well as other organizations that are nonprofit and in the public sector. Previously, she served as YMCA’s Vice President of Risk Intelligence for 10 years. She has also done a ton of great work with the RIMS Strategic & Enterprise Risk Management Council — which is where she and Justin originally met! In this episode, Monica is going to discuss the paper she wrote, diving deep into the topic of innovation and SRM. She also highlights how some of the ideas can even be applied during the coronavirus pandemic. Tune in to hear all of Monica’s key learnings and insights! Key Takeaways: [:01] About the RIMS Membership. [:27] About today’s episode and special guest, Monica Merrifield. [:33] About RIMS Coronavirus Information Center. [:47] About the new RIMS webinar all about positioning your business amid the coronavirus pandemic. [1:34] More about today’s episode and guest. [2:10] Justin welcomes Monica to RIMScast. [2:18] Monica describes her career background. [2:56] Does Monica feel that the nonprofit sector is suffering a bit right now due to the pandemic? [4:12] How can innovation and strategic risk management (SRM) be linked? [5:24] Will SRM always be successful? [7:47] Monica provides some examples of good questions a strategically-minded risk professional can ask throughout an innovation cycle. [10:10] What do people and organizations get wrong about innovation? And what do they have to get right to get meaningful success with innovation? [13:37] Why does Monica think that ‘innovation’ has become a sort of buzz word these days amongst organizations? [17:33] What are some new skills or traits that risk practitioners will need to support innovation in their organizations? [21:14] How does Monica feel that companies are innovating right now during the pandemic? And what does she feel that they could learn from this pivotal time in history? [25:02] Where to find the RIMS Executive Report. [25:15] Justin thanks Monica for joining the podcast and highlights some of the links to check out in today’s show notes! Mentioned in this Episode: Download the new RIMS Executive Report: “Innovation + Strategic Risk Management: A Positive Pairing for a Better Future” RIMS Coronavirus Information Center RIMS Advocacy RIMS Webinar — April 23rd: “Defeat Blindspots and Cognitive Biases During COVID-19 and Pandemics with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky” NOTICE: RIMS 2020 Annual Conference & Exhibition has been canceled. Please see the RIMS 2020 Cancellation FAQ for more information. Upcoming RIMS Events RM Magazine Risk Management Monitor RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP) New Feature: RIMS-CRMP Stories RIMS Membership — Discover why 10,000 of your peers from more than 60 countries are a part of the RIMS community! RIMS Benchmark Survey: Contribute your data by April 30th and receive the 2020 Survey for free! You’ll learn how much companies are paying per line of coverage and more. Visit RIMS.org/Benchmark. Download any episode of RIMScast. “Bridging Strategy and Implementation with Strategic Risk Management” RIMS White Paper Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, by Hal Gregersen Want to Learn More? Keep up with the podcast on RIMS.org and listen on iTunes. Have a question or suggestion? Email: Content@rims.org. Join the Conversation! Follow @RIMSorg on Facebook and Twitter, and join the RIMS Group on LinkedIn. Follow up with Our Guest: Monica Merrifield’s LinkedIn
When is the right time for a new job? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Hal Gregersen, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. They talk through what to do when you’re advancing in your role but itching for change, an outside job offer is making you question your current situation, or you’re considering going to a smaller organization for bigger responsibilities.
Dr. Steve Ralph [EP 131] shares with us why a "pause practice" is crucial to the well being of our creativity, how he balances being a professor and a CEO, and why you should try workshops you never would consider before. Show Notes: 5:38 - Becoming a professor at Pepperdine and Steve's favorite part of being a professor. 8:23 - The EPIC Impact Summit 10:50 - Balancing teaching in Malbu, California and living in Colorado. 12:59 - "Go to conferences you have never been before ... " 13:22 - Definition of leadership & creativity. 15:57 - "They know how to pause ... " 24:52 - "Everyone has their own story ... " 25:40 - Resilience. 28:00 - The importance of being present with the people you love. 32:15 - Response to the thoughts that people can only do one thing as a creative. 34:54 - "It's going to be ok ... each part has it's place ..." 39:40 - "Stay the course ... " How to reach Steve: Website | Linkedin Book Recommendations: "Innovators DNA" by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen "The Element" - Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
What is the number one predictor of happiness? Plus, the story of Valentine and the power of romance; Shun Fujimoto on pushing through ultimate pain to find your dreams; Tony Robbins and some of the best marriage and relationship advice you will hear; Paul Harvey and his article "If I Were The Devil"; the meaning behind 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter), and how understanding it will change your life; how to literally fix the MOST UNATTRACTIVE TRAIT in your life (it takes one decision); Andrew Newberg on the power of language patterns; six strategies to fix your relationship (and stop if from going off course); Hal Gregersen's three power questions; and 80 year Harvard study on happiness summarized in FIVE WORDS; one destructive force in relationships; Mel Robbins on 30 seconds that can change your life (a simple two-step process you can utilize immediately); and Siri Lindley on how one phone call and the right words and intention erased decades of pain on both sides of a relationship.
Questions need silence. Great questions are provocative. Great questions defy easy answers. Answering them takes time - they can be the work of a lifetime or a workshop. A great question can guide an organization, a Design Sprint or an educational program. Great Facilitators ask great questions - on purpose. In this episode I sit down with the effortlessly scintillating Nancy McGaw, Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program (Aspen BSP). Nancy also leads corporate programs designed to cultivate leaders and achieve Aspen BSP's mission of aligning business with the long-term health of society. In 2009 she founded (and still directs) the First Movers Fellowship Program, an innovation lab for exceptional business professionals who have demonstrated an ability and passion for imagining new products, services, and management practices that achieve profitable business growth and lasting, positive social impacts. I would suggest you listen to this episode at 1X speed if for no other reason than it's good to slow down sometimes - it's a point that Nancy makes early on in our conversation. Nancy and I meditate on the power of questions: Asking instead of telling lights people up and will surprise you, the asker, if you design your questions with care. Nancy shares three of her favorite questions. Tell me about a time when you were working at your best…? What would have to be true…? Why do you do the work you do? Starting with Stories The first question shows the power of Starting with stories. Any user experience researchers or Design Thinkers listening will know this to be true - if you're talking to a customer or a client, the best way to get rich and detailed information is to ask a “tell me about a time when…” question. Stories light up our brains in ways facts cannot, and starting our gatherings with a story is a luxurious and powerful way to generate energy and connectedness. Appreciative Inquiry This first question also connects to one of the most important ideas in this episode - even though it's mentioned only briefly: Asking with focus on the positive and the functional over the negative and dysfunctional. Appreciative Inquiry is a rich body of work and a unique approach to change. The Art of Possibility Nancy's second question is an excellent act of conversational Judo. Asking “What would have to be true…” can transform conflict into collaboration...or at least, honest inquiry. Asking this question can allow skeptics to dream a little and open the door into possibility. That question came out of another question, from Michael Robertson, who attended the recent cohort of my 12 week Innovation Leadership Accelerator. He wanted to know if an “us vs them” mentality is ever appropriate when trying to lead deeply important change. Nancy's answer is profoundly empathetic. As a side note, the next cohort of the ILA is in February - we're accepting applications through January. If you want to dive more deeply into your own personal leadership, head over to ILAprogram.com to learn more and apply. Why over what I love the idea of asking people “Why do you do what you do?” without even knowing what they do. This question also points to understanding people's history, which is one of the key components to change - how did we get to now? What was the arc of the story? Nancy has added some amazing books to my reading list - check out the show notes for links to them all and enjoy the episode! Nancy at the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program First Movers Fellowship Program Edgar Schein's Humble Inquiry The Four Quadrants of Conversational Leadership Appreciative Inquiry John McPhee's Draft No. 4 The Four Truths of Storytelling Carmine Gallo's Storytelling Secrets Rosamund and Ben Zander's Art of Possibility Leading change with and without a Burning Platform Hal Gregersen's Questions are the Answer Elise Foster's The Multiplier Effect Full Transcription at https://theconversationfactory.com/podcast/2019/12/24/leading-through-asking
Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I have the pleasure of speaking with Hal Gregersen. Hal is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His newest book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life (a Nautilus Book Award winner in 2018), builds on 200+ interviews with renowned business, technology, education, government, social enterprise, and artistic leaders. Ranked one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Hal regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars, and transformational coaching experiences. He has co-authored ten books and is the author of more than 50 articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change (with more than 10,000 citations by other scholars). His research has been highlighted in global media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. I am absolutely thrilled to be speaking with Hal Gregersen on the What’s Next! Podcast. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who wants to get better and rekindle his or her curiosity! TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Hal teaches us all about asking questions and really listening to the answers. Are you stopping and reflecting on how many and what kinds of questions you ask? Are you getting and acting on good feedback? Hal helps us pause and take a moment to rediscover our child-like curiosity and move forward as better leaders, better employees, and better humans! WHAT I LOVE MOST… Hal’s 24-hour question audit. We all should be doing this! Running time: 35:46 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Hal on social: Twitter LinkedIn Hal’s Website: halgregersen.com Hal’s Book: Questions are the Answer
My guest today is Hal Gregersen, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management. A Thinkers50 globally ranked management thinker, he has authored or coauthored ten books. His most recent book, “Questions Are the Answer,” examines the fact that while people are pre-programmed to look for answers, the real catalysts for innovative change are questions. Join us as we discuss Hal’s early careers in photography and politics; what makes a catalytic question; and the question that best motivates him to take action. Complete show notes and links can be found at https://whitneyjohnson.com/hal-gregersen
How can asking the right questions change our lives? Hal Gregersen is the author of the new book, Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, which is based on interviews with leaders like Pixar founder Ed Catmull and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Hal is well-known as an innovation and leadership guru who is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the Leadership Center at MIT. He is a prolific author and motivational speaker recognized by Thinkers 500 as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Minds. In this episode, Eric and Hal discuss his book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life. Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!In This Interview, Hal Gregersen and I Discuss…His book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in LifeThat whether we know it or not, we’re all living questionsKeystone questionsShadow questionsHow he discovered his questionsThe heart attack that changed his lifeHis shadow questionsAsking better questionsCompeting CommitmentsUnderlying assumptionsAlexander PapaderosHow if you want better answers, you’ve got to ask better questionsThat if you feel stuck you’re probably asking the wrong questionBrainstorming questions without answering themWhy we don’t ask good questionsCatalytic questions that challenge false assumptionsHow wanting to be right and smart stops us from getting to better questionsWhat if you woke up and asked, what am I dead wrong about today?That if you’re not making big enough mistakes, you’re not trying hard enoughThe danger of moving into smaller and smaller tribes that are founded on being rightActively seeking passive data – observing and listeningThe power of the pauseListening to understand vs listening to defendHow can I find and reflect the light in you?Hal Gregersen Links:halgregersen.comTwitterDaily Harvest – they deliver absolutely delicious organic, carefully sourced, chef-created fruit and veggie smoothies, soups, overnight oats, bowls and more to get 3 cups free in your first box. Visit www.dailyharvest.com and enter promo code: FEEDTalkSpace – the online therapy company that lets you message a licensed therapist from anywhere at any time. Therapy on demand. Non-judgemental, practical help when you need it at a fraction of the cost of traditional therapy. Visit www.talkspace.com and enter Promo Code: WOLF to get 65% off your first month.The Upper Room – a global ministry where you can join a worldwide community of Christian believers in daily prayer and devotional practice. Go to www.upperroom.org/welcome to get a free 30-day trialIf you enjoyed this conversation with Hal Gregersen, you might also enjoy these other episodes!John ZertaskySkip Prichard
What common trait do truly exceptional leaders share? Great leaders are exceptional at asking the questions that others don't ask. In this episode, author and speaker Hal Gregersen joins host Bill Coppel, Managing Director and Chief Client Growth Officer at First Clearing, to discuss the power of asking the right questions and how financial advisors can use that skill to bridge the gap between fintech and the people they serve. In this episode, you'll hear: The importance of asking the right questions Ways to combat isolation as a leader/executive What top leaders do to unlock disruptive ideas Examples of how advisors are redefining value creation for clients Techniques for getting ‘unstuck' How to see and do things differently Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer of Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. As an inspirational speaker, he has worked with such renowned organizations as Chanel, Disney, Patagonia, UNICEF, and the World Economic Forum, and has been recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the world's most innovative minds. Hal has both authored and coauthored a total of 10 books over the years, including the bestseller The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. In addition to being a bestselling author, Hal pursues his lifelong avocation of photography at his home in Boston's North Shore which he shares with his wife, Suzi Lee. Ways to contact Hal— Website: https://halgregersen.com/ Book: Questions Are The Answer Disclosures: If you like this content, share it or like us. If you want to join the conversation or connect with us, please visit us at www.firstclearing.com. This content is provided for general informational purposes only. The views expressed by non-affiliated guest speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of First Clearing or its affiliates. First Clearing and its affiliates do not endorse any guest speakers or their companies and therefore give no assurances as to the quality of their products and services. This channel is not monitored by First Clearing. For more information on our podcast, visit firstclearing.com. First Clearing is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member of SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. Copyright 2019, Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC. All rights reserved. First Clearing provides correspondent services to broker-dealers and does not provide services to the general public. CAR 0619-04588
My guest today is Jeff Dyer (Ph.D UCLA), the Horace Beesley professor of strategy at Brigham Young University as well as professor of strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a professor he spent five years as a consultant and manager at Bain & Company, a top management consultancy. His book “The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators”, with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and MIT professor Hal Gregersen, identifies the behaviors of the world's best innovators to demonstrate how individuals can enhance their own innovator DNA and increase the innovation capabilities of their organizations. The topic is his book Innovation Capital: How to Compete--and Win--Like the World's Most Innovative Leaders. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How can you build a personal reputation for innovation? What techniques can you use to amplify your innovation capital? How can you garner attention for your ideas and projects and persuade audiences to support them? What does it mean to provide visionary leadership and how you can achieve it? Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Jeff Dyer (Ph.D UCLA) is the Horace Beesley professor of strategy at Brigham Young University as well as professor of strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a professor he spent five years as a consultant and manager at Bain & Company, a top management consultancy. His book “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators”, with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and MIT professor Hal Gregersen, identifies the behaviors of the world’s best innovators to demonstrate how individuals can enhance their own innovator DNA and increase the innovation capabilities of their organizations. Today Jeff and Michael discuss his newest book Innovation Capital. You see, great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality–called “innovation capital”–is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative. The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the subject of The Innovator’s DNA) and how people test and develop those ideas (explored in The Innovator’s Method). Now they share what they’ve learned from a multipronged research program designed to determine how people compete for, and obtain, resources to launch new ideas. How you can build a personal reputation for innovation. What techniques you can use to amplify your innovation capital. How you can garner attention for your ideas and projects and persuade audiences to support them. What it means to provide visionary leadership and how you can achieve it. Featuring interviews with the superstars of innovation–individuals like Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk (Tesla), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), and Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)–Jeff dives in deep.
Hal Gregersen reveals the key skills of disruptive innovators--and how you can get them too. You'll Learn: The core five skills required for innovation The questions disruptive innovators ask How to network for new ideas About Hal: Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep447
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Kelly talks to Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center about his new book Questions are the Answer.
Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life. Hal has been ranked one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 and was winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership. He’s co-authored ten books, including The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. He is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. He is the creator of a unique executive development experience Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making a course that draws on his two passions – photography and innovation–to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders.In this episode Stew and Hal discuss the importance of posing questions and allowing them to sink in rather than jumping to answers and solutions. They talk about the ways in which putting yourself in a novel, even uncomfortable, situation compels you to ask questions that not only inform your understanding but can also challenge your grasp of the status quo. Hal provides a compelling example of his method for setting aside a four full minutes to do nothing but generate questions about a given dilemma or challenge and how that exercise alone can alter one’s perspective. For more about Hal, go to halgregersen.com and for those who are curious about Stew’s father’s photography, which they discussed, check out http://victorfriedmanphotography.com/. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode of Profiles in Risk, I spoke with Phil Palmer, recruiter extraordinaire. We discussed how to think about one's career, how to think strategically about positioning yourself not only for your next position but the position after that. We also discussed what companies are looking for and perhaps most interestingly, Phil believes that the talent gap may not be as bad as predicted as many of the lost jobs will not be replaced by humans, but with technology.CONNECT WITH PHIL PALMER:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/concentricrecruiters/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Pandemic Modeling - https://www.casact.org/community/affiliates/case/0914/pandemic.pdf Casualty Modeling - https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/casualty-risk-modelling-continues-important-growth-63944.aspx BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY PHIL:Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill - https://amzn.to/2YrzP85 The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mangino - https://amzn.to/2E432hr Books by Malcolm Gladwell - https://amzn.to/2VTEsdz Strategy of The Dolphin by Dudley Lynch - https://amzn.to/2YvMEOT Future Perfect by Stan Davis - https://amzn.to/30a2twd Future Shock by Alvin Toffler - https://amzn.to/2EgaXZt Books by David Sedaris - https://amzn.to/2YrGNtU Originals by Adam Grant - https://amzn.to/2HeijOS Questions Are The Answers by Hal Gregersen- https://amzn.to/2Q2iXlu Mind Set by Carol Dweck - https://amzn.to/2Yn9ubd SUBSCRIBE AT:Buzzsprout RSS: http://www.buzzsprout.com/87086Google Play: https://goo.gl/WMAvW4iTunes: https://goo.gl/7SqwvP Overcast: https://goo.gl/8b4cbD Spotify: https://goo.gl/niAbGN Stitcher: https://goo.gl/DmE7MiYouTube: https://goo.gl/1Turar
An innovation and leadership guru, Hal is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. While Hal’s expertise expands across all areas of innovative leadership, asking the right questions cuts deeply across all of his work. He challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act to build a better, more creative world. MINDED is an outlet for people who want to learn from industry and creative leaders that have an innate drive for excellence. Our guests set themselves apart by challenging the norm and pushing ideas forward. In a never-ending pursuit to succeed, we thrive to have an in-depth conversation about life, business and the world we live in. Hosted by Yuri Xavier. Follow us: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE 197 WITH HAL BELOWHal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.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.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast
Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.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.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast
Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.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.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast
What if the secret to getting unstuck isn’t the right answer, but the right question? Hal Gregersen, author of the book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, came to this conclusion after interviewing over 200 high-impact leaders. Through these conversations, he learned they were asking a different kind of question, one he calls catalytic. In this interview, he explains that these kinds of questions “…challenge an assumption that is fundamentally false in a way that provides me and perhaps others around me energy and motivation to do something about it.” Along the way, Hal’s found that these kinds of questions can help us get unstuck in all aspects of our lives. For example, Hal shares the story of a leader lamenting the distance he feels in his relationship with a teenage daughter. After spending just four minutes on a catalytic questioning activity called a “question burst,” this same leader made a starting realization: “At the beginning of the conversation…I was so focused on how to not lose her…But I was asking the wrong question. I really need to figure out how to help her grow and flourish…[to] let her find her.” Hal is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He’s authored or co-authored ten books, including the bestseller, The Innovator’s DNA with Clay Christensen and Jeff Dyer. Episode Links Andreas Heinecke and Dialogue in the Dark Using Catalytic Questioning to Solve Significant Problems by Hal Gregersen Sociologist Amitai Etzioni Debby Sterling and Goldieblox More information on question bursts in this HBR article by Hal The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson Video clip of Ed Catmull explaining Pixar’s Brain Trust Creative Clarity by Jon Kolko Lior Div and Cybereason Video clip of Jeff Wilke Walt Bettinger Marc Benioff Bea Perez Room 13 If you enjoy the podcast, here are three ways you can support the work we do. First, subscribe so you’ll never miss an episode. Second, tell a friend or family member, so you’ll always have someone to talk to about it. Third, rate and review the podcast wherever you subscribe, so you can help listeners find their next podcast. You can learn more about Curious Minds Host and Creator, Gayle Allen @CuriousGayle and www.gayleallen.net.
Hal Gregersen has coined the phrase, “catalytic questions” to refer to the type of questions that reframe a situation and make it possible for a person or a team to move forward in new, more effective ways. It’s a concept that is incredibly intriguing and one I wanted to dive into during this conversation with Hal. Hal is the creator of “Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making,” a course which uses photography as a tool to teach students how to ask radically better questions - questions that can change their impact as leaders. Hal is one of the world’s most influential management thinkers (Thinkers50) and he is a keynote speaker, seminar leader, and transformational coach. He’s worked alongside leadership teams at Chanel, IBM, and the World Economic Forum, to name a few. Join me for this fascinating conversation with Hal, on this episode of Masters of Leadership. “Great leadership creates an environment where Inquiry leads to insight which leads to impact.” ~ Hal Gregersen Hal believes that questions are often the answer to the challenges and obstacles that individuals and organizations face. His diverse experience as a consultant and leader himself have convinced him that when leaders can pave the way by asking better questions, their teams will uncover new ways to innovate, create, and make big things happen. Notice the progression Hal emphasizes: Inquiry (questions) lead to insight Insight leads to impact In this conversation Hal provides example after example of how this progression happens, telling anecdotes from his own experience that illustrate the truly life-changing power of catalytic questions. Leaders need to be actively seeking passive data We live in a time when AI and machine learning are able to capture and crunch data at a pace that is nothing short of overwhelming. When it comes to making use of the data available, leaders can easily find themselves staring at pages of information or a screen full of characters and not have a clue about where to begin to make effective use of it. While Hal believes in using all the data at our disposal to make our organizations more effective, he’s also keenly interested in teaching leaders to search out passive data. What IS passive data? It’s the information that exists in our organizations, customer experiences, and other places that isn’t screaming for attention. Most importantly, it’s the data that provides insights that truly matter and oftentimes cut to the heart of problems or needs. In this recorded conversation, Hal shares a handful of stories about how the leaders he’s worked with have gone on their own personal hunt for passive data and have benefited tremendously from the pursuit. You’ll hear stories involving Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Walt Bettinger, and more. Catalytic questions are not only for leaders. Teams need the skill as well Naturally, the more a best practice can be applied in a wider range of situations, the more effective that practice will become. I was interested in Hal’s observations regarding the use of catalytic questions among teams, so I asked him how leaders can teach their teams about catalytic questions and encourage them to use them. Naturally, leading by example is one of the huge ways leaders can help their teams see the power of asking the right questions. But Hal also shared some very practical approaches to implementing the use of questions in team environments. Listen to learn how you can build a powerful question-asking culture in your organization. The reality of remote teams makes question asking even more challenging The quick, choppy rhythm of digital communication has become the norm for many businesses. Emails, texts, Slack messages, and more contribute to lots of information exchange but often don’t effectively cut to the heart of more complicated or emotionally charged issues. Catalytic questions are indeed the answer to this issue. But how can we implement them effectively in remote teams? Hal suggests that leaders strive to build a team culture where everyone understands the limits of digital communication when it comes to a deeper understanding of issues. He suggests leaders teach their teams to get eye to eye as often as possible, whether that’s via video or in-person meetings. Not only does this practice create an environment where catalytic questions can be asked, but it also enables those participating in the conversation to pick up on relevant pieces of data communicated through facial expression and body language that digital communication simply can’t provide. Hal is a fount of wisdom when it comes to this issue of questions. I encourage you not only to listen to this conversation but also get your own copy of his new book, “Questions Are The Answer.” Outline of This Episode [0:43] Hal Gregersen: A true leadership expert and guru, especially regarding questions [1:44] How Hal views leadership after 30 years of research [3:13] Advice for how leaders can make great use of overwhelming amounts of data [6:33] Why Hal wanted to write a book about catalytic questioning [11:37] How can leaders cultivate good questioning in their teams? [16:30] What does it really mean to listen? [20:45] The link between good questions and empathy and candor [27:13] How do we ask catalytic questions in a remote work environment? Resources & People Mention ed https://halgregersen.com - Hal’s website Hal’s Leadership and the Lens course MIT Leadership Center MIT Sloan School of Management BOOK: Questions Are The Answer Jeff Bezos www.Relentless.com Marc Benioff SalesForce Walt Bettinger Charles Schwab Ed Catmull Pixar Travis Kalanick Uber Brad Burke Incredibles 2 Cirque du Soleil Jeffrey Wilke Mike Sippey Deval Patrick Amy C. Edmonson BOOK: The Fearless Organization Parker Palmer Chanel Bill and Melinda Gates Tony Robbins Patagonia Yvon Chouinard Matt Dwyer Connect with Erica Erica@cotentialgroup.com Linkedin.com/in/ericadhawan Twitter.com/edhawan Facebook.com/ericadhawan
Do you have a burning question? Be it professional, academic, or spiritual, Hal Gregersen just might help you formulate a better question which will help you get your answer. He is joined by Victoria Beecroft.
Hal Gregersen explores methods for asking better questions to address your biggest challenges. You'll Learn: How to ask better questions The four-minute Question Burst method to spark new ideas How the most creative organizations use questions wisely About Hal: Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep385
When guests come in to your home, what do they notice most of all? If you are having guests into your house this holiday season you will want to hear this surprising list of things people notice when they come through your front door. http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/home-and-garden/what-guests-really-notice-in-your-home/ss-BBnq4Uw#image=8Money matters. It determines your lifestyle, how long you must work and forces you to make decisions on how to spend it. So it would seem that having more money would make you happier. But not always. Joining me to discuss the role of money and its relationship with happiness is Laura Rowley who has been a personal finance columnist for Self magazine and The Huffington Post and is author of the book Money & Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life (https://amzn.to/2SdFXgT).We spend a good deal of our life looking for answers to questions and problems. Interestingly, there are times where it may be more important to find a better question. That’s according to Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the book Questions Are The Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life (https://amzn.to/2DXAWWT). Hal joins me to explain the process of coming up with better questions which can lead to greater insight into any problem. We all have to wash our hands in public bathrooms. So what is the best way to dry them afterwards? Some people prefer paper towels, some hot air dryers. But what does the best job of leaving you with clean germ-free hands? We’ll explore that in this episode. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04838.x/abstractThis Week's Sponsors-BetterHelp For 10% off your first month of counseling go to www.BetterHelp.com/something, promo code SOMETHING
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Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a prolific author and a motivational speaker. Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s fifty most innovative minds, he has authored or coauthored ten books, including the bestselling The […] The post CL199: How To Ask Better Questions – Interview with Hal Gregersen appeared first on James Taylor.
Each day comes with challenges that the world has never seen before. This requires a special kind of leader that prioritizes problem-solving skills over influencing others. Minds Worth Meeting converses with leadership expert and MIT professor Hal Gregersen, who discusses problem-led leadership and how it is changing the world. Keep an eye out for his new book, "Questions Are the Answer," coming out later this year (Harper Collins, 2018). Follow Professor Hal Gregersen on Twitter @HalGregersen and www.halgregersen.com. Hal Gregersen is available for paid speaking engagements, including keynote addresses, speeches, panels and conference talks, and advisory/consulting services through exclusive representation by Stern Speakers, a division of Stern Strategy Group®. Visit https://sternspeakers.com/speakers/hal-gregersen/ for more information.
Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center at Sloan School of Management, says too many CEOs and executives are in a bubble, one that shields them from the reality of what’s happening in the world and in their businesses. The higher you rise, the worse it gets. Gregersen discusses practical steps top managers can make to ask better questions, improve the flow of information, and more clearly see what matters. His article “Bursting the CEO Bubble” is in the March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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