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Discovering Opportunities and Uncovering the Roots of Problems |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Inventor, Author, and Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"The first people had questions, and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved." – The Earth Wisdom Teachings |
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Brief History: "All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom." – Hyman Rickover... MoreWhy Should You Ask Searching Questions? Searching questions can help you discover new opportunities, uncover the roots of a problem, and find creative solutions to it. Open your mind to what is possible. Asking searching questions starts with challenging assumptions. If you do not check assumptions you cannot be good at asking searching questions. Don't ask one or two questions and then rush straight towards a solution. With an incomplete understanding of the problem it is very easy to jump to wrong conclusions. Ask open-ended questions that elicit a wide rage of answers:
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DOs and DON'Ts of a Successful Innovator By: Peter Drucker DOs Go out to look, to ask, to listen... More Boosting Your Creativity Creativity requires an inquisitive mind. Unless you ask lots of "Why?" and "What If"? questions, you won't generate creative insights.
Triggering Great Ideas A major stimulant to creative thinking for business problem solving is focused questions. A well worded question often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights. To trigger more and better ideas, you, first, must be be very clear about exactly what it is that you are trying to do. Write it down and describe it as if it were already achieved. And, second, question your assumptions continually. What if there were a better way? Be willing to try something completely different.1 Case in Point Charles Schwab Dave Pottruck, co-CEO of Charles Schwab, says that most of Schwab's huge innovations have come from asking customers questions:
The Tao of Entrepreneurial Creativity... Creating Sustainable Profit Growth: 9 Questions To Answer... Questions for Creative Business Problem Solving... Thinking Outside-the-Box... Searching for Opportunities... Discovering Opportunities... Foundation of Successful Coaching... NLP Solutions: Coaching Yourself... Coaching Spectrum: The Ask/Tell Repertoire.., Case in Point Attributes of the Super Smart Sought by Microsoft... Case in Point IDEO... Case in Point Silicon Valley Firms.. Case in Point Google...
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