Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. How many times have you faced a challenge in life and not known where to begin to resolve it?

Joining us on this episode is Hal Gregerson, author of the book, Questions Are the Answer,

a breakthrough approach to your most vexing problems at work and in life.

Hal is well known as an innovation and leadership guru, who is the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and

senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Hal, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, Jan and Laura.

It's a delight to be with you.

Tell us what led you to write the book, Questions Are the Answer.

I've lived in too many cities and too many countries over the course of a lifetime

where I frankly have been clueless about all kinds of things I didn't know, I didn't know,

made a torrent of mistakes, learned a heck of a lot, and grew to understand that basically when you're operating in a world

full of uncertainty, questions really are the answer. They're the key that literally unlocks,

some insights, some understanding, and ideally some actions that make better sense when we're

moving to and fro in new and old

contexts.

And what led you to discover that, that the questions are the answer?

Over the course of not just a lifetime of what I just described moving from place to place,

but literally over the last five years, I've had the chance to interview 200 of some of the most innovative people on planet Earth,

ranging from Maureen Chiquet, who used to be the CEO of Chanel to Jeff Bezos at Amazon to fill in the blank.

And when you explore how those kinds of people literally get innovative ideas that make a big impact around the world.

You come to understand that they literally wake up in the morning trying to seek out the better

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