Hal Gregerson: ...that questions are the answer
Nobody Told Me!
Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Looking for a new way to solve problems? Join us as we talk with Hal Gregersen, author of the book, "Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life". It's based on interviews with leaders like Pixar founder Ed Catmull and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Hal is well-known as an innovation and leadership guru who is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His website is https://halgregersen.com/
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:21.9 | Joining us on this episode is Hal Gregerson, author of the book, Questions Are the Answer, |
| 0:27.0 | a breakthrough approach to your most vexing problems at work and in life. |
| 0:31.1 | Hal is well known as an innovation and leadership guru, who is the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and senior |
| 0:39.9 | lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Hale, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:45.4 | Thank you, Jan and Laura. It's a delight to be with you. Tell us what led you to write the book, |
| 0:51.0 | questions are the answer. I've lived in too many cities and too many countries over the course of a lifetime where I frankly |
| 0:59.2 | have been clueless about all kinds of things I didn't know, I didn't know, made a torrent |
| 1:04.9 | of mistakes, learned a heck of a lot, and grew to understand that basically when you're operating in a world |
| 1:13.9 | full of uncertainty, questions really are the answer. They're the key that literally unlocks, |
| 1:21.3 | some insights, some understanding, and ideally some actions that make better sense when we're |
| 1:26.7 | moving to and fro in new and old contexts. |
| 1:29.3 | And what led you to discover that, that the questions are the answer? |
| 1:33.3 | Over the course of not just a lifetime of what I just described, moving from place to place, |
| 1:38.3 | but literally, over the last five years, I've had the chance to interview 200 of some of the most |
| 1:44.4 | innovative people on planet Earth, ranging from Maureen Chiquet, who used to be the CEO |
| 1:49.0 | of Chanel to Jeff Bezos at Amazon to fill in the blank. |
| 1:54.0 | And when you explore how those kinds of people literally get innovative ideas that make a big |
| 1:59.9 | impact around the world, You come to understand that |
| 2:02.9 | they literally wake up in the morning trying to seek out the better question one that other people |
| 2:08.9 | honestly don't see because when you are operating on that edge of innovation, on the edge of |
| 2:13.6 | uncertainty, on the edge of the unknown, there are no answers. And you're literally |
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