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Hal Gregersen
Executive Director, MIT Leadership Center; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management, and founder of the 4-24 Project, which is committed to inspiring leaders to set aside four minutes every 24 hours (totaling one full day each year) to ask better questions. A Thinkers50 globally ranked management thinker, he is co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. He also is co-creator (with Sam Abell) of Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making, an executive education experience through MIT Sloan Executive Education in association with Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
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From a young age, we are taught that answers matter more than questions. As adults, we experience powerful organizational and societal forces that keep us from asking (or hear...