{"product_id":"2940169979725","title":"Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problemamp;mdash;in your workplace, community, or home lifeamp;mdash;just by changing the question?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTalk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: \"why are all the great building toys made for boys?\" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: \"would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?\" Or listen to technologist Elon Musk, who routinely challenges assumptions with questions like: \"What are people accepting as an industry standard when there's room for significant improvement?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat questions like these have a catalytic qualityamp;mdash;that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clearamp;mdash;but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. \u003ci\u003eQuestions Are the Answer\u003c\/i\u003e delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questionsamp;mdash;and breakthrough insightsamp;mdash;and how anyone can create them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104772374768,"sku":"2940169979725","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169979725_p0.jpg?v=1763698519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169979725","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}