WHY and WHAT IF QUESTIONS. Entrepreneurial Questions: How To Search for Opportunities: Challenge Assumptions, Ask a Lot of Why and What If Questions and Develop What If Scenarios (free advice by Vadim Kotelnikov)

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Ask 'Why? What If?' Questions

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Creativity requires an inquisitive mind.

Unless you ask lots of "Why?" and "What If"? questions, you won't generate creative insights.

To avoid this most common of creative errors, don't take anything for granted. Especially established practices and habits.

Vadim Kotelnikov innovation quotes ask searching questions

If you want to innovate, question everything, ask a lot of searching questions.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

Challenge Assumptions

Ask "Why?" and "What If?" questions – critical thinking works best when you continually ask yourself, ‘Does this make sense?’, ‘If not, what if?’. Use the 5-Why approach to determine the root cause of a problem... More

Boost Your Creativity

Try looking at the world with new eyes and from various perceptual positions through more inquisitive eyes; try getting ideas in motion; try asking the all-important "Why? What if?" questions and play with "What If" ideas.

Creativity Innovation tips Ask Why? What If? questions to generate creative insights and start Innovating Dennis Kotelnikov Vadim

Stretch your thinking – ask 'Why? What If?' questions, break the box and ... close your eyes to open your Third Eye and see clearly

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Manage Change by Encouraging Questions

"The first people had questions, and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved." ~ The Earth Wisdom Teachings

Ask Searching Questions

Adopt a → Creative Dissatisfaction attitude.

The key that opens the door to opportunities is the approach of asking yourself searching questions 'Why?' and 'What If?'

Searching questions can help you → discover new opportunities, uncover the roots of a problem, and find → creative solutions to it.

Break rules quote Vadim Kotelnikov Innovation paradox doing things right is wrong

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... More

→ Problem Solving Strategies: 4 Levels

Search for Opportunities

"We are constantly encouraged to spend time exploring new ideas and asking "what if?" questions and we're allowed to pursue the ones we think have the most promise."
~ Mark Dean, IBM

Open your mind to what is possible. Ask also other people to find out what they want, what they do not want, and what they would like to change... More

→ Turn Problems to Opportunities: 6 Tips

Sample "Why?" and "What If?" Questions

Why we always do things this way? What if we do it → differently?
Why should we limit ourselves to getting better in what we are doing? What if we change things radically?
Why should I look at this risk as a problem? What if I try to convert risks into opportunities?
Why don't we try to challenge our big competitor's market leadership position? What if we create a new market segment?
Why should we look at cultural differences as a problem? What if we try to leverage the power of our diversity?