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Audie Award, Business/Educational, 2015 Within this groundbreaking publication, journalist and technology expert Warren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change running a business and inside our daily lives is a simple, underappreciated tool - one which has been open to us since years as a child. Questioning - deeply, imaginatively, "magnificently" - can help us identify and solve problems, produce game-changing ideas, and go after fresh opportunities. Why are we often reluctant to ask "Why?" Berger's surprising studies disclose that even though children begin asking a huge selection of questions a day, questioning "comes off a cliff" as kids enter in school. In an education and business culture devised to compensate rote answers over challenging inquiry, questioning isn't prompted - and, in reality, is sometimes barely tolerated. Yet, as Berger shows, the most creative, successful people have a tendency to be expert questioners. They've perfected the fine art of inquiry, elevating questions nobody else is asking - and finding powerful answers. The writer takes us inside red-hot businesses like Google, Netflix, IDEO, and Airbnb to show how questioning is baked into their organizational DNA. He also stocks inspiring testimonies of artists, educators, entrepreneurs, cellar tinkerers, and social activists who evolved their lives and the world around them - by starting with a "beautiful question". Berger explores important questions, such as:
- Why aren't we nurturing kids' natural capability to question - and what can parents and classes do about this?
- Since questioning is a starting place for technology, how might companies and business market leaders commence to encourage and exploit it?
- And most important, how can each folks reignite that questioning spark - and use inquiry as a powerful methods to rethink and reinvent our lives?
