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How long does it take to read A More Beautiful Question The Power Of Inquiry To Spark Breakthrough Ideas?

Warren Berger

A More Beautiful Question The Power Of Inquiry To Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger takes about 4 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 46 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2014. 260 pages, about 71,500 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 57 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 46 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 59 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a question--a "beautiful" question--that is the mother of invention. The world's leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally good at asking questions. For some, their greatest successes--their breakthrough inventions, hot startup companies, the radical solutions they'd found to stubborn problems--could be traced to a "beautiful" question, or series of questions, they'd formulated and then answered. Innovator and writer Warren Berger, who's been asking questions his entire life, brilliantly captures these innovative query-makers to try and determine what makes a question particularly beautiful, from Tim Westegren wondering how to "map the DNA of music," a project that would grow into the wildly successful Pandora internet radio service, to Abby Brown, creating a school desk with a raised seat as she thought about how she could accommodate some fidgeting students. As A More Beautiful Question will illustrate, whether we're solving tough personal or professional problems, rejuvenating businesses, or schools, or government, or re-inventing the ways we live... it all begins with asking the right questions"--

Subjects: Creative ability in business, Entrepreneurship, Inquiry-based learning, Learning, PHILOSOPHY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship

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