Table Of ContentForeword by Marshall Goldsmith Introduction: Questions for Change 1. Moment of Truth 2. A Challenge Accepted 3. The Choice Map 4. We're All Recovering Judgers 5. Kitchen Talk 6. Switching Questions 7. See with New Eyes, Hear with New Ears 8. Learner Teams and Judger Teams 9. When the Magic Works 10. Q-Storming to the Rescue 11. Amour! Amour! 12. The Bottom Line Epilogue: The Inquiring Leader Graphics and Charts Question Thinking Workbook
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SynopsisWhat questions lead to our biggest breakthroughs and successes? In this new and revised third edition, Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask. Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly instructive and entertaining story that illustrates how to quickly recognize any undermining questions that pop into your mind--or out of your mouth--and reframe them to achieve amazingly positive and practical results. The book's informative Choice Map helps guide you through this Question Thinking process. The result? More effective communication, greater collaboration, and highly effective solutions to problems in any situation. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an international bestseller whose global reputation has spread largely through word of mouth. The extensively revised third edition includes a new introduction and epilogue and two powerful new tools that show how Question Thinking can dramatically improve coaching and leadership. This entertaining, step-by-step book can make a life-transforming difference--it already has for hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Great results really do begin with great questions. Marilee Adams's clear instructions show you how!, What questions lead to our biggest breakthroughs and successes? In this new and revised third edition, Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask. Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly instructive and entertaining story that illustrates how to quickly recognize any undermining questions that pop into your mind--or out of your mouth--and reframe them to achieve amazingly positive and practical results. The book's informative Choice Map helps guide you through this Question Thinking process. The result? More effective communication, greater collaboration, and highly effective solutions to problems in any situation. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an international bestseller whose global reputation has spread largely through word of mouth. The extensively revised third edition includes a new introduction and epilogue and two powerful new tools that show how Question Thinking can dramatically improve coaching and leadership. This entertaining, step-by-step book can make a life-transforming difference--it already has for hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Great results really do begin with great questions. Marilee Adams's clear instructions show you how, Through a compelling story Marilee Adams shows that, in any situation, we can ask "Judger" questions that impede our progress and keep us from getting results we want. Or we can ask "Learner" questions that open us to growth, connection, satisfaction, and success. This insight leads the book's hero to breakthroughs that save his career as well as his marriage., Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a worldwide, word-of-mouth bestseller. Readers have said they personally experienced life-changing benefits by learning to ask the right questions--ones that empowered them rather than got in their way. Through a compelling story Marilee Adams shows that, in any situation, we can ask "Judger" questions that impede our progress and keep us from getting results we want. Or we can ask "Learner" questions that open us to growth, connection, satisfaction, and success. This insight leads the book's hero to breakthroughs that save his career as well as his marriage. In this extensively revised third edition, Adams has made her quick-read story even more illuminating and helpful, and has added two powerful new tools that show how working with the Judger/Learner mindset can dramatically improve coaching and leadership. This entertaining, enlightening step-by-step guide has what you need to transform your life, personally and professionally.
LC Classification NumberBF637.C4A33 2015