Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To AskIn Leading with Questions, internationally acclaimed management consultant Michael Marquardt shows how you can learn to ask the powerful questions that will generate short-term results and long-term learning and success. Throughout the book, he demonstrates how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster outside-the-box thinking, empower others, build relationships with customers, solve problems, and much more. Based on interviews with twenty-two successful leaders who “lead with questions,” this important book reveals how to determine which questions will lead to solutions in today’s complicated business world. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Part One THE POWER OF QUESTIONS | 9 |
Part Two ASKING QUESTIONS EFFECTIVELY | 49 |
Part Three A GUIDE FOR LEADERS ON USING QUESTIONS | 113 |
CONCLUSION | 171 |
Resource A TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR QUESTIONING LEADERS | 175 |
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