Hal Gregersen Video Blog

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Breakthrough solutions start with assumption-challenging questions—and it’s a leader’s obligation to surface them. As Hal Gregersen explores in his Harvard Business Review piece, leaders can learn a lot from photographers about how to lead and ask the right questions. In this video, he discusses how photography has impacted his own work as a leader and the framing questions that he asks and lives. The intersection between inquiry and images is the foundation of the MIT Sloan Executive Education workshop “Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making” that Gregersen teaches with world-renowned National Geographic photographer Sam Abell.

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Leadership and the Lens

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Questioning

Breakthrough solutions start with assumption-challenging questions—and it’s a leader’s obligation to surface them. As Hal Gregersen explores in his Harvard Business Review piece, leaders can learn a lot from photographers about how to lead and ask the right questions. In this video, he discusses how photography has impacted his own work as a leader and the framing questions that he asks and lives. The intersection between inquiry and images is the foundation of the MIT Sloan Executive Education workshop “Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making” that Gregersen teaches with world-renowned National Geographic photographer Sam Abell.

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The Innovator's DNA Video Series

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Questioning

Hal Gregersen discusses the power of questioning and its ability to change the status quo, both in our personal and professional lives.

Observing

Hal Gregersen discusses the discovery skill of observing and how it can lead to new ideas and ways of doing things.

Networking

Hal Gregersen discusses the discovery skill of networking and why gaining perspective from people with different industry, technical, cultural, and living experiences is critical in today's world.

Experimenting

Hal Gregersen discusses the value of experimenting and why failure is part and parcel to innovation in order to see what insights emerge.

Associating

Hal Gregersen discusses the power of associating and how the most innovative leaders draw connections between questions, problems or ideas from unrelated fields.

Got a Problem?

Innovation often starts with a passion ignited by experience or a problem. In this video, Hal Gregersen discusses why both starting points are ideal hotbeds for creative thinking, and what we as leaders can do to move our innovative journeys forward once this passion or problem is defined.

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Building Young Innovators

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The 4-24 Project

Hal Gregersen discusses the need to develop the next generation of innovators. He describes simple steps to keep creativity alive in our children and give them the tools they need to solve some of the world’s most vexing problems.

The next generation – our children – will soon be walking into an environment more tumultuous than it ever was before. As a result, it will be more critical for them to practice the problem-solving power of innovation than it ever was before. For this reason, Hal Gregersen founded the 4-24 project, which provides the tools and inspiration needed to sharpen and cultivate the questioning ability of the world’s children. In this video, Hal Gregersen discusses why it's so important to sustain our children's curiosity and how we can achieve this by encouraging questioning, exposing them to new people and places, and embracing failure. Together, we can improve our global society today and nurture the next generation of innovators tomorrow.