Summary of Keynote - Hal Gregersen - 2019

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Hal Gregersen is a keynote speaker who discusses the importance of questioning and inquiry in order to drive innovation and collaboration. He provides examples of how companies have used questions to improve their operations and create better products. He encourages listeners to turn to someone next to them and give an elevator pitch explanation as to why they should work for the speaker's company.

  • 00:00:00 Hal Gregerson discusses the importance of questioning assumptions and how doing so can help us explore new ideas and achieve positive results. He shares a story about a time when he nearly died from altitude sickness, and how this experience helped him realize the importance of leadership.
  • 00:05:00 Hal Gregersen, keynote speaker, discusses the importance of questions in business and how they can help organizations operate at their best. He shares an anecdote about interviewing the CEO of a cybersecurity company, who explained that the company's success is based on their ability to ask better questions. Hal then discusses a company, Qian's Corporation, that has consistently been in the top 100 companies in the world for the past four or five years. He asks the audience if anyone knows of any interactions they've had with Qian's Corporation, and one hand goes up.
  • 00:10:00 Hal Gregersen, keynote speaker at the 2019 Salesforce conference, discusses the importance of questioning and inquiry in order to drive innovation and collaboration. He provides an example of how a CEO, Travis Kalanick, failed when he became too defensive in an argument with a driver. He also discusses how power can corrupt the questioning process, leading to isolation and stagnation. Gregersen recommends proactive seeking of passive data in order to avoid this fate.
  • 00:15:00 Hal Gregersen presents how important it is to ask questions, and how asking better questions can lead to better outcomes. He encourages listeners to turn to someone next to them and give an elevator pitch explanation as to why they should work for the speaker's company. Behaviorally, he suggests doing different things tomorrow in order to ask better questions.
  • 00:20:00 Hal Gregersen shares how leaders in his field of photography compose and wait for opportunities to take better pictures. He illustrates this point with examples from his own life and career. In the process, he emphasizes the importance of asking questions and seeking information in order to create better systems.
  • 00:25:00 Hal Gregersen gives a keynote on how to be a successful problem solver, and how to use questions to figure out what will work best for both the customer and the organization. He also shares an example of how Toy Story was created, and how Pixar has succeeded in creating a sustainable creative organization.
  • 00:30:00 Hal Gregersen, keynote speaker at the 2019 SXSW Film Conference, discusses the importance of questioning in filmmaking. He discusses Pixar's approach of allowing directors to listen to other experts and get feedback on their movie ideas. This process is often exhausting, but is necessary for creating great films.
  • 00:35:00 Hal Gregersen, author of "The Power of Questions" and keynote speaker at the 2019 Atlanta Leadership Program, asks attendees to brainstorm nothing but questions to help them address a challenge. He explains that the logic behind this exercise works 80% of the time, and if participants are able to share their challenge in less than two minutes, they are allowed to start asking questions. If participants are unable to share their challenge within two minutes, they are allowed to write down one or two words that best explain or capture how they feel about the challenge.
  • 00:40:00 Hal Gregersen, a keynote speaker at the 2019 TED conference, discusses his 2020 challenge - to down all the questions word-for-word. He challenges participants to try to generate as many questions as possible, and to ask tough questions that will do something about the issue. The rules are simple - no answers and no explanations - and the first participant to finish their questions wins.
  • 00:45:00 Hal Gregersen, CEO of Gregersen Capital Management, discusses the challenge of navigating the current market conditions.
  • 00:50:00 Hal Gregersen shares data from a study that demonstrates how most people feel better after discussing a challenge with others, and offers advice on how to take on a new challenge. He encourages people to not be afraid to be vulnerable in order to get new ideas and move it forward.
  • 00:55:00 In his keynote, Hal Gregersen discusses the importance of asking questions to engage and motivate others. He shares how Virgin Galactic uses a question-first process to engage and motivate its team. He also shares how Intuit changed its approach to 360 feedback by working with its leadership to develop a question-centric culture.

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Hal Gregersen tells the story of how his father taught him to ask questions and to see problems in a different way. He urges others to create similar spaces where people can come to ask questions and find solutions. This is a powerful message that can help people to find new ways of looking at problems and to find solutions that they may not have otherwise found.

  • 01:00:00 Hal Gregersen tells the story of how his father taught him to ask questions and to see problems in a different way. He urges others to create similar spaces where people can come to ask questions and find solutions.

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