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Successful Practices
Culture
of
Questioning
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"Effective questions make people think
about new ways of doing things. How can you create a culture of questioning?
Lead by example – start with
yourself. Ask lots of questions. Ask better questions if you want to get
better answers. Exploration of possibilities, discoveries,
innovation, and progress startt with challenging assumptions,
asking searching
“Why?” and “What if?” questions, and plying “What if”
scenarios."
~
Vadim Kotelnikov,
Founder of
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"We run the company by
questions, not by answers. So in
the strategy process we've so
far formulated 30 questions that
we have to answer. I'll give you
an example: we have a lot of
cash. What should we do with the
cash? Another example of a
question: we have AdSense for
content, where we're monetizing
the Web. How do we make that
product produce better content,
not just lots of content? How we
do make sure that in the area of
video, that high-quality video
is also monetized? What are the
next big breakthroughs in
search? And the competitive
questions: What do we do about
the various products our
competitors are offering? You
ask it as a question, rather
than a pithy answer, and that
stimulates conversation. Out of
the conversation comes
innovation. Innovation is
not something that I just wake
up one day and say 'I want to
innovate.' You get a better
innovative culture if you
ask it as a question.“
~ Eric Schmidt, the former CEO
of
Google
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Where there is great doubt, there will
be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no
awakening. |
Zen proverb
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