Breakthrough Questions
Are you ready to ask a breakthrough question and get a breath-taking result for your business?
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What’s Polaroid, a family day trip and a dose of a typical 3-year-old’s impatience got to do with your business?
If a 3-year-old can ask an obvious question that transformed her father’s business, then can’t we all find breakthrough questions for our own businesses?
Uncover the 3-question formula that can transform your business’s brand, revenue and sales
Get a breath-taking breakthrough for your business by just asking the right question
How to ask yourself and your colleagues the simple, valuable and innovative questions that will transform your business results.
What happens when you stop being busy, being busy and take time-out in your business to ask some breakthrough questions?
Great things will happen in your business when you ask a simple question
Because your business matters, take time-out to ask simple questions for future success
If you ask the right questions in your business, you will improve your bottom line
What happens to the success of your business when you start asking breakthrough questions?
Ask the right questions and you will get a breath-taking business breakthrough.
How to unlock the questions that will transform your business…
Why is ‘why’ the most important way to start a question?
Why, the one word that will enable you to ask breakthrough questions in your business
Your business success starts with a WHY…
Start your business on the right path to success by asking ‘WHY’
What happens when you take the 3-question formula seriously in your business?
Start using the 3-question formula in your business today and ask the most important question first… WHY?
WHY – the inspiration you need to drive your business forward
Outsmart the competition by taking time-out of your business to ask the right questions
Because WHY will bring business success when you use the 3-question formula, can you afford to ignore it?
If a 3-year-old’s simple question can create a billion-pound business, then its worth applying the same formula to your business
What can your business learn from an American typist?
A game-changing question can come from anyone in your team, take time-out to ask the right questions in your business
Questions will be the start of innovation in your business
Ask powerful questions in your business today – your business is at risk if you don’t
Why risk the success of your business by not asking breakthrough questions?
What can your business learn from an inventor and a typist?
Avoid business disaster by not using all the parts of the 3-question formula
The right questions for your business growth must include ‘WHAT IF and ‘HOW’
Because you want to ask the right questions in your business you must use ‘WHAT IF and ‘HOW’
Ask a ‘WHAT IF’ question in your business
Ask a ‘HOW’ question in your business
Don’t be frightened of asking the simple question in your business
How to ask the right questions in your business is about using the 3-question formula
Because the rent needed to be paid, Joe and Brian asked the right question for massive business success
How can an idea, a mattress and a room for the night help your business be successful?
What happens when a simple idea in a San Francisco Apartment, changes the way you look at your business?
In just 2 years, a handful of simple questions creates a successful business,
Make the questions asked in your business simple enough to act upon
Start looking at your business as the WHY, WHAT IF and HOW of innovative questioning
Don’t allow your business to settle for what currently exists, ask the right questions and propel your business forward to success
Stop working at the coalface and take time-out in your business to ask breakthrough questions
Ask challenging yet simple questions in your business – it worked for a 3-year-old…
Use the 3-question formula in your business today, start with ‘Why?’…
What questions should you be asking for business success?
What if you could create a breakthrough idea in your business, just by asking a simple question?
Stop being too busy being busy and take time-out to ask the right questions in your business
Discipline yourself and your team to take regular time-out for question creation
Here are 4 helping hands to get you and your team on the road to asking the right questions in your business
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1. Do you remember the Polaroid camera first time around? The three-year-old daughter of a businessmen came up with that idea on a day out with her Dad – you can learn more about that story here and two more stories that focus on asking a laser-like question, bringing an avalanche of opportunity for their respective business owners.
2. Innovation, creativity and inspiration all start when you ask a question – a really simple question. But how? Check out this 4-page business breakthrough to help you uncover the strategy that will get you asking business changing questions.
3. Like most business owners you spend most of your day locked in meetings, on the phone, answering emails, dealing with issues from your team or customers.
This probably leaves very little time for you to have your lunch, let alone take some time out of your business to ask breakthrough questions that could transform its long-term success and future.
And it’s a simple breakthrough question that brings innovation, inspiration and results. Click here to learn more…
4. If a 3-year-old can ask her Dad (Edwin Land) a simple question about the photo he had just taken of her that then resulted in him launching Polaroid cameras and having a business worth £3.1 billion, then these simple, breakthrough questions are surely something you need to take seriously. Click here to learn how to ask breakthrough questions in your business.
5. ‘WHY?’ – a word that you probably use 100 times a day.
‘WHY?’ is crucial to the success of your business.
Innovative breakthrough ideas start with ‘WHY?’.
Click here to learn that your business success starts with one word…
6. Warren Berger in his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ uncovered a formula, a formula that goes a long way to explaining how some of the best business ideas and innovations have been created. Click here to learn what this formula is and the difference it can make to your business success.
7. You’ve heard the phrase I’m sure, ‘Ask a simple question and you get a simple answer’.
It’s mostly said in jest, or to someone who is asking something pointless as a sarcastic remark. I’ve even said it to my kids…
But – here is the breath-taking breakthrough… what if it’s true? Click here to learn if it is…
8. Learn the effect that asking a simple question and getting a simple answer had on Edwin Land, an Inventor and Bette Nesmith Graham, the results for them were profound and if you follow their simple formula, the results for your business can be profound too… Click here to learn to success of a question from a 3-year-old.
9. ‘WHY?’ questions are about seeing and understanding the problem and are the first questions to be asked in the 3-step breakthrough question formula.
This proven formula will enable you and your colleagues to ask simple, valuable and innovative questions. Click here to learn how…
10.Click here to learn that rather than running from failure in your business you need to hold it to the light and ask:
WHY did the idea fail? WHAT IF I could take what I have learned from this failure and try another approach? HOW might I do that?
11. A few simple questions asked at the right time in your business can have a profound effect on your future success. Click here to learn that when you take time-out with your team, away from the day-to-day running of the office you will be surprised at the questions they ask.
12. Click here to learn how Why? What If? and How? all contributed to the creation and success of Airbnb and how Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky became successful by asking the right questions when struggling to pay their rent by challenging assumptions.
13. In his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ Warren Berger’s research points to a simple 3-question formula that you and I can apply to our businesses, our products and our services.
So why not take yourself and your team away from the office and have some time-out and give the 3-question formula a go? What have you got to lose? Click here to learn more
14. It’s easy to admire the business success of Polaroid, Uber and Airbnb, but these are not just one-offs, with the right questions and the right ideas this same business success can be yours too.
What if you could create your own breakthrough idea, what if you could ask just one question that could transform the fortunes of your business? Click here to learn just 4 pointers to get you started.
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1. Do you remember the Polaroid camera first time around? The three-year-old daughter of a businessmen came up with that idea on a day out with her Dad – you can learn more about that story here and two more stories that focus on asking a laser-like question, bringing an avalanche of opportunity for their respective business owners.
2. Innovation, creativity and inspiration all start when you ask a question – a really simple question. But how? Check out this 4-page business breakthrough to help you uncover the strategy that will get you asking business changing questions.
3. Like most business owners you spend most of your day locked in meetings, on the phone, answering emails, dealing with issues from your team or customers.
This probably leaves very little time for you to have your lunch, let alone take some time out of your business to ask breakthrough questions that could transform its long-term success and future.
And it’s a simple breakthrough question that brings innovation, inspiration and results. Click here to learn more…
4. If a 3-year-old can ask her Dad (Edwin Land) a simple question about the photo he had just taken of her that then resulted in him launching Polaroid cameras and having a business worth £3.1 billion, then these simple, breakthrough questions are surely something you need to take seriously. Click here to learn how to ask breakthrough questions in your business.
5. ‘WHY?’ – a word that you probably use 100 times a day.
‘WHY?’ is crucial to the success of your business.
Innovative breakthrough ideas start with ‘WHY?’.
Click here to learn that your business success starts with one word…
6. Warren Berger in his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ uncovered a formula, a formula that goes a long way to explaining how some of the best business ideas and innovations have been created. Click here to learn what this formula is and the difference it can make to your business success.
7. You’ve heard the phrase I’m sure, ‘Ask a simple question and you get a simple answer’.
It’s mostly said in jest, or to someone who is asking something pointless as a sarcastic remark. I’ve even said it to my kids…
But – here is the breath-taking breakthrough… what if it’s true? Click here to learn if it is…
8. Learn the effect that asking a simple question and getting a simple answer had on Edwin Land, an Inventor and Bette Nesmith Graham, the results for them were profound and if you follow their simple formula, the results for your business can be profound too… Click here to learn to success of a question from a 3-year-old.
9. ‘WHY?’ questions are about seeing and understanding the problem and are the first questions to be asked in the 3-step breakthrough question formula.
This proven formula will enable you and your colleagues to ask simple, valuable and innovative questions. Click here to learn how…
10.Click here to learn that rather than running from failure in your business you need to hold it to the light and ask:
WHY did the idea fail? WHAT IF I could take what I have learned from this failure and try another approach? HOW might I do that?
11. A few simple questions asked at the right time in your business can have a profound effect on your future success. Click here to learn that when you take time-out with your team, away from the day-to-day running of the office you will be surprised at the questions they ask.
12. Click here to learn how Why? What If? and How? all contributed to the creation and success of Airbnb and how Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky became successful by asking the right questions when struggling to pay their rent by challenging assumptions.
13. In his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ Warren Berger’s research points to a simple 3-question formula that you and I can apply to our businesses, our products and our services.
So why not take yourself and your team away from the office and have some time-out and give the 3-question formula a go? What have you got to lose? Click here to learn more
14. It’s easy to admire the business success of Polaroid, Uber and Airbnb, but these are not just one-offs, with the right questions and the right ideas this same business success can be yours too.
What if you could create your own breakthrough idea, what if you could ask just one question that could transform the fortunes of your business? Click here to learn just 4 pointers to get you started.
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BLOG 1 – What can business owners learn from a 3 year-old?
If a 3-year-old can ask an obvious question, then can’t we all ask great questions?
On a sunny winter’s day in 1943 Jennifer (3-years old) asked a question of her dad. Edwin Land had just taken Jennifer’s picture with his favourite camera when she piped up “Why can’t I see the picture you’ve taken right now?”
Like most 3-year-olds Jennifer didn’t want to wait!
Jennifer’s question stayed with Edwin and resulted, in 1948, the first Polaroid camera. This single question generated 14 million polaroid camera sales and £1.1 billion (in 1948) or £3.7 billion in today’s money!
Get a breath-taking breakthrough for your business by just asking the right question – learn more on this by clicking here.
Grab a cuppa and download this business breakthrough edition called ‘Are you ready to ask a breakthrough question and get a breath-taking result for your business?’ to uncover the proven 3-question formula so that you and your colleagues ask the simple, valuable and innovative questions that will really shake things up!
BLOG 2 – Can a simple question make a big difference in your business?
It’s so easy to get bogged down with the day to day business of just getting the job done.
In fact, I am sure like most business owners you spend most of your day locked in meetings, on the phone, answering emails, dealing with issues from your team or customers.
This probably leaves very little time for you to have your lunch, let alone take some time out of your business to ask breakthrough questions that could transform its long-term success and future.
And it’s a simple breakthrough question that brings innovation, inspiration and results.
In fact, the simpler the question the better.
If a 3-year-old can ask her Dad (Edwin Land) a simple question about the photo he had just taken of her that then resulted in him launching Polaroid cameras and having a business worth £3.1 billion, then these simple, breakthrough questions are surely something you need to take seriously.
You ask questions every day, sometimes without thinking, but are these breakthrough questions to drive your business to the next level or are these questions about the day to day running of your business?
Do you take time out of your business to really think about these questions?
We’re all hungry for better answers, but first we need to take time out, step back and learn how to ask the right questions – the breakthrough questions.
When you do, you’ll get a breath-taking business breakthrough just like Edwin Land did.
Click here to learn how to use a proven 3-question formula – then you can ask the right simple, valuable and innovation questions in your business. Who knows where the right question will take you?
BLOG 3 – Innovative breakthrough ideas for your business success start with one word
‘WHY?’ – a word that you probably use 100 times a day.
‘WHY?’ is crucial to the success of your business.
Innovative breakthrough ideas start with ‘WHY?’.
The 3-question formula to create breakthrough questions starts with ‘WHY?’.
Warren Berger in his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ uncovered this formula, a formula that goes a long way to explaining how some of the best business ideas and innovations have been created.
‘WHY?’ wakes you up, so that you become aware of and understand the problem.
‘WHY?’ is about seeing and understanding, looking with a fresh eye, which when you are entrenched in the every day excitement of getting the job done, is not easy to do!
To ask the right ‘WHY’ question you need to do the following:
1 - step back – take time-out of your business to really look at things with a fresh perspective, this is best done away from the office to avoid the normal distractions
2 - notice what others miss, try to see what is lacking
3 - challenge the natural assumptions of your business – including your own
4 - question the questions – get the team involved – ask the naïve and simple questions – sometimes people are too afraid to ask the same question a 3-year-old would – but it worked for Edwin Land (creator of the Polaroid camera)
5 - get an ‘stranger’ involved when you start asking ‘WHY?’ questions about your business, customers, products or services, this enables you to step back and really think about the questions being asked
Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky asked a simple ‘WHY?’ question when struggling to pay their rent on their San Francisco apartment, with astonishing results. They created a business from nothing that is now worth £2billion.
Click here to discover the question you should be asking to bring your business the success you seek. Learn how the question ‘WHY?’ worked for Gebbia and Chesky…
BLOG 4 – Why mistakes proved to be business winner for one American typist
You’ve heard the phrase I’m sure, ‘Ask a simple question and you get a simple answer’.
It’s mostly said in jest, or to someone who is asking something pointless as a sarcastic remark. I’ve even said it to my kids…
But – here is the breath-taking breakthrough…
What if it’s true?
What if it’s what is needed to cut through the clutter of your daily working life?
What if a simple question and a simple answer are exactly what your business needs?
It worked for Edwin Land and Bette Nesmith Graham with profound results.
Sometimes the simple questions really are the best ones!
Edwin Land was an inventor, who while on holiday with his family, took some pictures of his 3-year-old daughter Jennifer, using his favourite camera. In those days you had to take your film to a darkroom or a lab to be developed, a fact that Land was aware of, but his daughter was not.
His daughter was impatient and wanted to see the pictures, she didn’t want to wait.
Her question was simple:
‘Why can’t I see the picture you’ve just taken of me, why do I have to wait?’
This to Land, as an inventor, was a puzzle he simply had to solve and resulted in the first Polaroid Camera – launched in 1948. In 1978 at its height, 14 million Polaroid Cameras were sold, and the business was valued in today’s money at £3.7 billion.
All of that from a simple question asked by an impatient 3-year-old!
Bette Nesmith Graham, a typist by day and painter in her spare time, also asked a simple question:
‘What if I could paint over my mistakes when typing, the way I do when painting my pictures?’
Bette decided to take a pot of paint and water to work with her to try it out. Bette’s ‘miracle mixture’ made it easy to cover typing mistakes.
It was not long before she was selling her correction fluid to hundreds of secretaries and in 1980 Bette sold her ‘Liquid Paper’ business for £39 million!
Few people take questions seriously enough, but your business depends on you doing so.
Click here to discover why taking time out and asking questions of every aspect of your business will transform your products and services…
BLOG 5 – The 3-part formula to creating breakthrough questions for your business
Asking naïve or ‘beginners mind’ questions in your business puts you on the road to creative breakthrough questions.
Putting a stranger in the room when asking the ‘WHY?’ questions will bring another perspective to the questions being asked and enable you to step back.
‘WHY?’ questions are about seeing and understanding the problem and are the first questions to be asked in the 3-step breakthrough question formula.
This proven formula will enable you and your colleagues to ask simple, valuable and innovative questions.
After ‘WHY?’ comes ‘WHAT IF?’.
A ‘WHAT IF?’ question starts you thinking about the possible solutions – the answers to the ‘WHY’ question. The ‘WHAT IF?’ question generates options and ideas.
For example:
“What if I could somehow have a darkroom inside my camera and produce the photo immediately?” (Edwin Land’s was asked this ‘WHAT IF?’ question and went on to invent the polaroid camera.
“What if I paint over my mistakes when typing, the way I do when painting?” (Bette Nesmith Graham, a typist by day and painter in her spare time asked the ‘WHAT IF?’ question and went on to invent liquid paper)
A ‘HOW?’ question is the stage where the rubber meets the road.
It stimulates and prompts you to act on the possibilities you have come up with through the ‘WHAT IF?’ questions, to test your ideas within your business.
The ‘HOW?’ stage is the point where things come together.
Of course, they may then fall apart again, which is a positive thing, as the greatest learning comes from failure. Failure creates more questioning and a desire to get it right.
Rather than running from failure in your business you need to hold it to the light and ask:
WHY did the idea fail? WHAT IF I could take what I have learned from this failure and try another approach? HOW might I do that?
Click here to learn how when questions are asked in your business using the proven 3-step breakthrough question formula, you and your team will generate new ideas and make your business more successful.
BLOG 6 – What can your business learn from 2 struggling rent payers in San Francisco?
A few simple questions asked at the right time in your business can have a profound effect on your future success.
Take time-out with your team, away from the day-to-day running of the office and you might be surprised at the questions they ask.
Sometimes questions can be born out of necessity and other times they can be about a long-standing problem, issue or idea that someone has wanted to mention but not had the courage or the right platform to do so.
The key to this time is that it’s ‘no holds barred’ time. Time when no question is too basic, no question will be rejected, everything will be considered.
Here is a perfect example of a simple question asked at the right time that had a dramatic effect on 2 men’s lives.
Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky had one question uppermost in their minds:
‘How are we going to pay our rent?’
This was their main issue at the time, they had no jobs and not much money. But they did have a nice apartment in San Francisco, providing a roof over their heads and a place to sleep.
At the same time newspapers were reporting on the lack of hotel beds in the city….
So what question would you ask given these two facts? How about asking…
‘Why do people coming to our town have so much trouble getting a hotel room?’
Joe and Brian were problem-finding with this question.
And so was born the idea of ‘air bed and breakfast’. It’s now called Airbnb and is valued at more than £20 billion.
Click here to learn that Why? What If? and How? all contributed to the creation and success of Airbnb and how Joe and Brian became successful by asking the right questions and challenging assumptions.
Apply this formula to the questions asked of your business by you and your team and maybe you too can be as successful as Joe and Brian!
BLOG 7 – Get yourself a business breakthrough with 3 simple questions …
It’s easy to admire the business success of Polaroid, Uber and Airbnb, but these are not just one-offs, with the right questions and the right ideas this same business success can be yours too.
What if you could create your own breakthrough idea, what if you could ask just one question that could transform the fortunes of your business?
In his book ‘A More Beautiful Question’ Warren Berger’s research points to a simple 3-question formula that you and I can apply to our businesses, our products and our services.
So why not take yourself and your team away from the office and have some time-out and give the 3-question formula a go? What have you got to lose?
Here are 4 pointers to get you started:
Drag yourself away from the coalface.
Stop being too busy being busy, doing everything that just needs doing to keep your business going. Step back and go problem finding.
It worked for Bette Nesmith Graham who came up with ‘Liquid Paper’.
Create a whole series of ‘WHY?’ questions and seek out a problem worth tackling in your business.
Remember your team must know that every question will be considered, then you can fine-tune and filter the questions and focus on the one or two issues worthy of further investigation.
Next pose some ‘WHAT IF?’ questions.
These questions will generate options, ideas, possibilities and alternatives, just like Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky did when they set up Airbnb.
Make it happen with ‘HOW?’ questions.
Having found the problem and created options now it’s time to work out ‘HOW?’.
Prototype and test your ideas as fast as you can, remember innovation rarely happens overnight and there can be several failures along the road to success. It took 5 years for Edwin Land to launch the first Polaroid, but he started fast and never let set-backs divert him from his ultimate goal.
Click here to learn how to create the breakthrough questions that will uncover just one idea that will deliver a breath-taking result for your business…
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During your working day you ask and answer many questions...
But, are they the right questions?
What if just one question could create a breakthrough idea that will transform your business success?
In this ‘breakthrough questions’ edition of Business Bitesize you will learn, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea:
- how a brilliantly simple question asked by a 3-year-old made the picture clear for Edwin Land
- why wanting to correct mistakes meant a small bottle brought big success for an American typist
- how putting a ‘stranger’ in the room creates breakthrough questions for your business
Take time-out in your business to find the right questions to ask, they will not only unlock breath-taking breakthroughs for your business, but help you stay ahead of the competition.
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