IDEO CEO Agrees - Questions Not Answers

A NY Times interview with Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, a silicon valley design firm reinforces a critical point of six sigma problem-solving, discussed in a blog post in August 2009. In the post, I talked about the importance of good questions that provoke critical thinking. In the interview, Tim Brown espouses much the same philosophy and predilection for questions rather than answers. That’s not to suggest that answers are not important. Quite the contrary. But when the emphasis and focus are on coming up with quick answers,

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