Questions are...

Questions are the key to growth and innovation.

Whenever someone wants to motivate, inspire or engage, questions are involved.

Why is that?

Questions stimulate the imagination. Questions can be used to formulate hypotheses. Questions make it easy to take perspectives.

Questions do not need to be justified.

Questions help people think of something new that adds value.

Innovation.

There are several reasons why too few questions are asked. One is that we may have forgotten how to do it a little. Another is that it takes time.

For formulating questions, for listening and integrating.

Maybe also because there are cultural constraints.

But you can save a lot of time and money if you use questions to get to the heart of the matter and recharge your batteries.

Ms. Ilka Horstmeier told the story at the FutureWork23 how back than many had the dream of self-driving cars in big cities. With a few questions, it very quickly became clear that this is still a long way off and that the billions are better invested elsewhere.