Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity

Appendix A Critical Questions

At the end of each chapter we included a short list of questions related to the content that we hoped would be useful and provocative. Questions open the doors of learning and discovery, and they can be tremendously powerful allies in the important work of strategy, design, and, of course, innovation. As Thomas Berger has told us, “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”

In addition, we have prepared a more detailed list that relates broadly to the entire scope of the book. These are mostly deep questions that we hope will help you consider what innovation and Agile Innovation in particular may mean for you and your organization.

Questions about You

1. If your life were a novel, what would be the title? How would the story end?
2. Who has been the most important person in your life?
3. What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
4. Who has been the biggest influence on your life?
5. Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
6. What are the most important lessons you've learned in life?
7. What are you most grateful for?
8. In your ideal job, what would be your greatest fear?
9. Are you more of a follower or a leader, and why?
10. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What's holding you back?
11. Have you ever seen insanity where you later recognized creativity?
12. Are you holding on to something you need to let ...