Searching Questions - discover opportunities and innovate forward

Searching Questions

Discover opportunities and innovate

Open your mind to what is possible.

When you ask searching questions, you innovate forward.

When you have answers, you stagnate.

Dare to ask "Why?" questions to discover hidden problems.

Dare to be different to ask "What If?" questions, invent unusual solutions, and break rules.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but
it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions." ~ Anthony Jay

Ability to ask effective searching questions is an core attribute of the Super Smart sought by leading companies.

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

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 very clear about exactly what it is that you are trying to achieve. 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.

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SuperCreativity
SuperCreativity as Synergy of Conscious, SuperConscious and Divine Creativities

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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:

'Why' questions to discover the roots of the problem

'How' questions to discover different routes to significant improvement significant improvement.

Coaching by Example

Mission-driven Innovator

Why? What If? Questions

Why do you always do something that way?
What if you do it differently?

Creativity requires an inquisitive mind. Unless you ask lots of "Why?" and "What If"? questions, you won't generate creative insights. 'Why? What If?' questions help challenge assumptions, discover hidden barriers to progress, break obsolete rules, and dance up with innovative ideas.

'Why? What If?' Questions
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Self-Management Question
Culture of Questioning

Inventive Questions

What extraordinary things could I do for others?

What if I reframe the challenge and look at it from different angles?

How else could we approach it?... More

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Yin and Yang of Inventive Thinking
Questions fo Creative Problem Solving

Actually, your true passion (aeipathy) is your divine purpose and life mission. While you are seeking for your purpose, it is seeking for you.

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Searching questions helps companies innovate and create sustainable profit growth.

Example: Google

Google's top managers run the company by questions, not by answers, to get a better innovative culture. They ask a lot of strategy-, product-, market- and competition-related questions to stimulate conversation that results in innovation.

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Question-based Management
Cross-pollination of Ideas
Jack Welch's 5 Strategic Questions

"For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" ~ James Allen