At the risk of being challenged, I'd argue that many innovations wouldn't have made it to the real world or met customer needs if the right questions hadn't been asked. The power of constantly ...

''Words arranged differently have different meanings, meanings arranged differently have different effects'' — Blaise Pascal (Pensées) In the field of psychotherapy, the role of the question is often ...

Asking good questions is considered one of the most important skills in business. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google said, “We run the company by questions, not by answers.” According to management ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can we encourage students to develop their own questions? And, once they create them, what’s next? In Part One, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Kevin Parr, Silvina Jover, and ...

Several years ago, during a flight from Houston to Paris, I had a conversation with the CEO of a prominent Houston-based company. When I mentioned that I was a teacher, I asked him, “What skills do ...

Readers intent on enlightening me often send me books and essays written by them or, less often, others. Now and then one of these offerings grabs my attention before I hit “delete.” A recent example: ...

A dad ended up turning to social media for help after a question in his 7-year-old son's math homework left him questioning his "sanity." Debate over the value of homework continues to rage among ...