3 Articles :The Questioning Mind: Newton, Darwin, & Einstein

[AjayKumar.Kataram]

When system is more complex and we should create alternative solutions. May be some lateral thinking and focus on Implementing of our good plans. Has System courage to face questions from ground reality? why education system has less questions : Link with "weak R & D in INDIA" ?

Solution is: SYNERGY

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Lead with questions, not answrers”- Jim Colin ( Good to great )

The Questioning Mind: Newton, Darwin, & Einstein

Most people think that genius is the primary determinant of intellectual achievement. Yet three of the all-time greatest thinkers had in common, not inexplicable genius, but a questioning mind. Their intellectual skills and inquisitive drive embodied the essence of critical thinking. Through skilled deep and persistent questioning they redesigned our view of the physical world and the universe.

Consider Newton. Uninterested in the set curriculum at Cambridge, Newton at 19 drew up a list of questions under 45 heads. His title: “Quaestiones,” signaled his goal: constantly to question the nature of matter, place, time, and motion.
His style was to slog his way to knowledge. For example, he “bought

Descartes’s Geometry and read it by himself. When he got over 2 or 3 pages he could understand no farther, then he began again and advanced farther and continued so doing till he made himself master of the whole…”


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Why “Blink” Matters:The Power of First Impressions

by Susan M. Heathfiel

Professional speakers and trainers have long asserted that people make up their minds about people they meet for the first time within two minutes. Others assert that these first impressions about people take only thirty seconds to make. As it turns out, both may be underestimates. According to Malcolm Gladwell, in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ,the decisions may occur much faster - think instantaneously or in two seconds. His findings have serious implications for organizations.

According to Gladwell’s research, we think without thinking, we thin-slice whenever we “meet a new person or have to make sense of something quickly or encounter a novel situation.” He says, “Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience … they are also unconscious.”

Kindly read at :http://greathumanca pital.wordpress. com/2007/ 02/13/why- blink-matters- the-power- of-first- impressions/

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Asking the Right Questions

Prof. Peter Senge

The best way to learn is to ask questions. Here are a few starters for diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization.

• What are our unifying values? What have we stood for over time? The ability to provide context and meaning for the work people do is key.

• How do you organize your time? Is it spent on what you say is important? If you want to know if you’re really adding value, look at your calendar.

• Whom do you depend on? Your real work team is those people you count on to do your job — including support staff, suppliers, customers, direct reports, even regulators. Your performance depends on the quality of those relationships.

• What are you being paid for? All leaders must understand what results they’re accountable for.

• How well do you practice teamwork, empowerment, service, or whatever values you espouse? Credibility is the No. 1 issue for leaders. By taking an honest look at your own practices — and asking others to look at them — you’ll know where you stand.

• How do you convey difficult issues? Learning requires an acceptance, by definition, that one doesn’t have all the answers. Your ability to discuss complex problems and develop solutions without making others defensive is a key to learning.

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[avadhoot.dharmadhikari]

Nice Post