It’s a good reminder that questioning more is important and provides techniques to develop this skill

I think the subject matter is essential, but the writing to me was just dull, like a cost accounting class. Anyways, it seems that setting the stage to generate questions and then unpacking those questions is a worthwhile venture. It will take a lot of planning, use of your and others time, resources, and probably more things I am missing. The strategy used and proposed in this book is one few people will do mainly because of the effort it takes to do it correctly, but if done the results can be...

I really liked this book. He does a good job of showing you how getting the right answer is dependent on asking the right question. The question is, therefore, more important than the answer. To make meaningful progress you have to ask questions that make you feel uncomfortable. You have to get feedback from people you might not even agree with. Those people, though, will make you look at the problem differently and allow you to see solutions you might not have thought of otherwise. He recommend...

When I first heard Hal Gregersen describe his maxim, “Questions are the Answer,” at the 2018 MIT Sloan CFO forum, I was underwhelmed. Wasn’t this just common sense? Who doesn’t use questions to scope out potential solutions to problems? How could this possibly be a “breakthrough approach?”But Hal then gave specific examples of people who had used questions in specific ways to solve problems. He told us about Fadi Ghandour, the founder of Aramex, a logistics and transportation firm, who decided t...

I found the premise of shifting our mindset from finding answers to focusing on developing good questions to be great. I think the author does a good job of explaining why it's important. However, this book could have been cut in half. I felt the author was enjoying name-dropping well-known entrepreneurs and included stories that did not lend well to further exploring the points being made. The most important lessons are in Chapters 1-4.

5 Stars. This book has changed the way I think and how I view the world. It has taken an entire year to work through this book. What a rewarding experience this has been."There are few things as useless—if not dangerous—as the right answer to the wrong question." — Peter DruckerAfter making it through two-thirds of the book six months ago I thought I had gleaned as much information as there could be on questions. The remaining third of the book at first glance seemed to be fluff that didn't add

I took Hal's class on the same topic and he gave me this book. Leaders often think their role is to provide answers and solutions, but questions often stimulate new ideas and deep thinking into answers and solutions. Asking questions should not just be a skill for senior leaders, it's a life skill for everyone.

There are pages after pages elaborating that good questions are the game changer and how it affected successful companies. Personally I missed some advises on how a good question is structured and what are the building blocks.

It was a good book and I enjoyed the examples, but I never felt like it got to the how.

My thoughts on this book, and that of many books like it in the subject of creativity, are decidedly mixed.  To be sure, there are great insights to be made when it comes to asking questions, since asking the right questions can lead one to starkly unusual conclusions.  So often, though, this author (and many others like him) are simply interested in praising novelty without reflecting on the moral value of questioning (or not questioning).  All too often being a rebel and questioning authority

In “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life”, the author, Dr Hal Gregersen, highlights the significance of forming and asking appropriate questions when processing information or in solving problems. In essence, the approach promotes openness (minds, hearts and will) and curiosity instead of relying purely on previously established knowledge, opinions and beliefs. It is a more dynamic approach to finding solutions to our problems by bein...

Quite interesting book about how not common for us to be able to create questions--because whatever reasons there may be....and the fact that, like everything else--we need to start doing it so that we could get good at it...or, even if we ask a lot of questions doesn't means we are learning to ask better questions....there seems to be an art to generate great questions.I was able to see-find that out with my own life experience--now that I teach (or try to) at a college level. None of my studen...

Having met Hal, I'm inspired by his writing as well as how he lives his life. It's apparent that he uses what he has learned from the incredible experiences he has had and the people he has interviewed in finding the right questions to ask to improve his own life and help those in his sphere of influence. I have tried his exercise of a "question burst" a few times and it never fails to bring new insight and a shift in perspective when done in the way he prescribes it. This book is a great remind...

For psych background readers, many of the research cited are very familiar; therefore, the concepts are extremely simple. However, I very much appreciate Gregersen going into office politics and other human emotional obstacles that put roadblocks along the way of concept to deployment. Great ideas, however simple, are useless unless properly deployed. I recommend Patton, Stone, & Heen's book Difficult Conversations as a companion reading to this. Teams may feel awkward at first but keep on truck...

Questions are the Answer has stuck with me, such that I find myself applying it every day. We tend to make statements. We do so because it’s human nature to share what we think. We do so because we’re expected to have answers. This book shows how asking the right question can be so much more powerful. Questions frame the problem. In a group setting, questions can also catalyze the whole team in a new and common direction. I wish I had encountered this book sooner in my role as a leader.

This book provides beautiful and thought provoking, real life examples of people who question and businesses formed around questions. However, it real strength, and the reason I'm giving it give stars is for the practical tools it gives the reader for re-thinking their mental processes and cultivating questions in life and business. Will you move from skepticism and read about how "Questions Are the Answer?"

Wow! Yes. 5 full stars. While this book may be primarily written with professional application as it’s goal, I found myself inspired to use the same processes in my personal relationships and within my spiritual/faith journey. Questions are naturally very appealing to me. I LOVE to question. Love to look at things from different angles. Love to explore and learn. This book enlivened that part of my personality and gave me some fun goals I’d like to improve upon.

This book detailed several questioning practices that I will incorporate at work and home and which made the read worthwhile. Another key takeaway for me is the notion of wrongness as a condition. A desirable condition. Assuming my probable wrongness and letting the resulting curiosity chart a path to new solutions. Recommend!

A really fantastic overview of the importance of asking and searching for the right questions. There are several great examples of how asking the right questions sets you up for coming to the right conclusion. A lot of the overwhelming problems we face will be unlocked once we figure out how to reframe the questions.

This made it to my list because he was the speaker at the general session of the 2019 PMI conference. He was an engaging speaker, and as a natural questioner and project manager, I appreciated a perspective that supports asking the right questions to help teams think beyond the usual. A good business book.