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10 Signs You Have a

Culture of Inquiry

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Questioning is often the starting point of innovation.

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Questioning is often the starting point of innovation.

Inquiry enables us to organize our thinking around what we don’t know.

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Questioning is often the starting point of innovation.

Inquiry enables us to organize our thinking around what we don’t know.

It shines a light on where new opportunities lie—and where companies need to go.

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Questioning is often the starting point of innovation.

Inquiry enables us to organize our thinking around what we don’t know.

It shines a light on where new opportunities lie—and where companies need to go.

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In today’s world of exponential change

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In today’s world of exponential change

innovative companies must have a Culture of Inquiry.

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10 Signs You Have a

Culture of Inquiry

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Your leaders question everything.

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A culture of inquiry starts at the top with leaders who question, and welcome questions from employees and outsiders.

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Your company is comfortable with

ambiguity and few easy answers.

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It’s understood that answers are relative and change is a constant.

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Your company has a mission question

rather than a mission statement.

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Employees and customers are more engaged by an aspirational mission question rather than a static statement.

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Your company prioritizes

critical thinking.

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The pressure on short-term results is always relentless, but a culture of inquiry finds time for questioning and critically examining assumptions and the status quo.

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Your company rewards questioning (or, at least, does not

punish it).

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A culture of inquiry gives people credit for finding problems & raising questions—without putting the burden on them to “fix it” themselves.

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Your company gives people the time

and space to question deeply.

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A culture of inquiry encourages employees to venture out into the world to observe, listen, and learn.

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Your company provides the tools to question well.

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Employees are guided through training and exercises toward more informed, productive questions.

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Before any possible solutions are brainstormed, a culture of inquiry will spend time uncovering what the real issues and assumptions are, through thought-provoking Why and What questions.

Your company uses “questionstorming” to surface problems and questions worth

considering.

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Your company actively seeks new employees who are

naturally inquisitive.

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Potential employees’ critical thinking skills are evaluated by asking them to bring ambitious and open-ended questions pertinent to your company to the interview.

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Your company appreciates and

encourages open, inclusive language.

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In a culture of inquiry, when proposing or evaluating new concepts, judgmental language is replaced by empowering questions starting with “How might we...” and “What if we could...”

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To establish a culture of inquiry

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To establish a culture of inquiry

the biggest challenge may be

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To establish a culture of inquiry

the biggest challenge may be

shifting your company

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To establish a culture of inquiry

the biggest challenge may be

shifting your company

to value “questions” over “answers.”

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But this is imperative in today’s world

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But this is imperative in today’s world

where answers change overnight,

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But this is imperative in today’s world

where answers change overnight,

and exploratory questions

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But this is imperative in today’s world

where answers change overnight,

and exploratory questions

can help anticipate what’s coming.

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With a culture of inquiry,

there’s always more possibility.

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With a culture of inquiry,

there’s always more possibility.

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