Should business leaders spend more time asking questions? Hal Gregersen has a firm answer to that: Yes. Gregersen, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer on leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has been studying executives for decades. Time and again, he has noticed, the most successful managers are among the most inquisitive people in business. Now Gregersen has synthesized his observations on the subject in a new book, Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, published by HarperCollins. MIT News sat down with Gregersen to, well, ask him about the new book.

Q: What’s the genesis of this book?

A: As I’ve interacted with people, it’s been obvious that finding and asking the right questions was central to the work they did as leaders.

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