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001 2013036021
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008 130920s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013036021
020 $a9781620401453 (hardback)
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050 00 $aHD53$b.B448 2014
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084 $aPHI000000$aBUS025000$aSCI089000$aSEL000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBerger, Warren.
245 12 $aA more beautiful question :$bthe power of inquiry to spark breakthrough ideas /$cWarren Berger.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury USA,$c[2014]
300 $a260 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners.It's not necessity, but a question--a "beautiful" question--that is the mother of invention. The world's leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally good at asking questions. For some, their greatest successes--their breakthrough inventions, hot startup companies, the radical solutions they'd found to stubborn problems--could be traced to a "beautiful" question, or series of questions, they'd formulated and then answered. Innovator and writer Warren Berger, who's been asking questions his entire life, brilliantly captures these innovative query-makers to try and determine what makes a question particularly beautiful, from Tim Westegren wondering how to "map the DNA of music," a project that would grow into the wildly successful Pandora internet radio service, to Abby Brown, creating a school desk with a raised seat as she thought about how she could accommodate some fidgeting students. As A More Beautiful Question will illustrate, whether we're solving tough personal or professional problems, rejuvenating businesses, or schools, or government, or re-inventing the ways we live... it all begins with asking the right questions"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a question--a "beautiful" question--that is the mother of invention. The world's leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally good at asking questions. For some, their greatest successes--their breakthrough inventions, hot startup companies, the radical solutions they'd found to stubborn problems--could be traced to a "beautiful" question, or series of questions, they'd formulated and then answered. Innovator and writer Warren Berger, who's been asking questions his entire life, brilliantly captures these innovative query-makers to try and determine what makes a question particularly beautiful, from Tim Westegren wondering how to "map the DNA of music," a project that would grow into the wildly successful Pandora internet radio service, to Abby Brown, creating a school desk with a raised seat as she thought about how she could accommodate some fidgeting students. As A More Beautiful Question will illustrate, whether we're solving tough personal or professional problems, rejuvenating businesses, or schools, or government, or re-inventing the ways we live... it all begins with asking the right questions"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-246) and index.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSELF-HELP / General.$2bisacsh
650 0 $aCreative ability in business.
650 0 $aEntrepreneurship.
650 0 $aInquiry-based learning.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/453/9781620401453/image/lgcover.9781620401453.jpg