"When all think alike, then no one is thinking."- Walter Lippman
While reading the November 7 issue of Forbes I noticed an article about Innovating From Small to Big by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. In the article they discuss a study they published in their new book The Innovator's DNA(have not read it yet).
The study found that company founders, disruptive innovators, typically have five discovery skills. I will like to explore these five in detail over the next 5 days.
The first of these skills is Questioning. One of the best techniques that I have learned for questioning is the 5 Why. In this technique a person doing an investigation continues to ask why to establish the cause, effect, and evidence for each why.
As parents, we often hate when kids continuously ask why. Well, the 5 why(or more if needed) is the adult version of this game. It tries not to assume that an event has a single cause but tries to drill into it more deeply. It gets pretty close to the true cause fairly quickly.
Today's question is:
"Did you ask at least 5 Whys when presented with new information?"
While reading the November 7 issue of Forbes I noticed an article about Innovating From Small to Big by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. In the article they discuss a study they published in their new book The Innovator's DNA(have not read it yet).
The study found that company founders, disruptive innovators, typically have five discovery skills. I will like to explore these five in detail over the next 5 days.
The first of these skills is Questioning. One of the best techniques that I have learned for questioning is the 5 Why. In this technique a person doing an investigation continues to ask why to establish the cause, effect, and evidence for each why.
As parents, we often hate when kids continuously ask why. Well, the 5 why(or more if needed) is the adult version of this game. It tries not to assume that an event has a single cause but tries to drill into it more deeply. It gets pretty close to the true cause fairly quickly.
Today's question is:
"Did you ask at least 5 Whys when presented with new information?"
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