Warren Berger's Blog, page 12
February 2, 2013
A historian’s view of questioning
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer outlines what makes a "proper historical question,” with six universal axioms we can all use while trying to frame useful questions.
Does the “school cliff” matter more than the fiscal cliff?
Author Daniel Pink comments on the alarming trend of students’ engagement dropping dramatically over the years.
January 14, 2013
Peter Drucker: The consultant as master questioner
Why exactly was Peter Drucker—“the man who invented management” and the father of business consulting—so in demand as an advisor?
January 11, 2013
A beautiful question that spawned a futuristic car
What if you imagined the kind of city in which you’d like to live, and then designed a car for this ideal place? Frank Moss at MIT Media Lab tackled this beautiful question.
January 10, 2013
The DNA of a master questioner
Guess what's one of the 5 essential skills great innovators share? Author and educator Hal Gregersen talks about how businesses need to integrate questioning into their culture in order to be more innovative.
December 10, 2012
Einstein and questioning
To get a sense of how Albert Einstein felt about questioning, just look at some of the many famous quotes from him on this subject.
December 9, 2012
Is questioning the starting point of creativity?
A neuroscientist offers a view inside the creative mind: The part of Susan Greenfied’s videotaped speech that caught my attention is when she discusses what’s going on in the brain in the first stages of creative thinking.
December 5, 2012
What if we had a health care system instead of a ‘sick care system?’
An imaginary prize inspires this and other questions In an interesting recent article in the New York Times headlined “Imaginary Prizes Take Aim at Real Problems,” the reporter J. Peder Zane approached a number of MacArthur Foundation fellowship winners—i.e., people who are doing groundbreaking work on various important issues—and asked them the following beautiful question:...
November 14, 2012
“Neoteny”: How can we release the 5-year-old questioner inside all of us?
Provocative questions raised by LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and M.I.T.’s Joi Ito In case you missed it, there was an excellent “Corner Office” column in the 11/11/12 Sunday New York Times, featuring Jeff Weiner, the chief executive of LinkedIn. Within that column are two points about questioning that are worth noting. First, Wiener advised people starting...
October 18, 2012
Inquiring about the “Good Life”
Jonathan Fields’ online video interview series "Good Life Project," consists of great questions and answers with interesting and successful people. I recently enjoyed two segments—one with author/marketing guru Seth Godin, the other with author/meditation expert Susan Piver.
