Two new popular posts in my ongoing “The Questionologist” column for PsychologyToday.com, and a great podcast conversation about the power of questions to improve your life.
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People in the news using beautiful questions
When you’re a questionologist, you can’t help spotting beautiful questions in your reading. Below are a few I found by chance in the news.
Coaching and the art of asking beautiful questions
At the 2016 Capital Coaches Conference I’ll be discussing my belief that coaches, who already know the power of great questions, should teach their clients how to become beautiful questioners themselves.
“The best coaching question in the world” from Michael Bungay Stanier
In The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, by Michael Bungay Stanier, Michael shares 7 powerful questions that can make someone a better leader or manager.
Questioning Fuels Innovation. So Why Don’t We Inquire More?
By being willing to ask ‘why,’ inquiring leaders can inspire others around them to do likewise. And as the questions proliferate, some good answers are likely to follow.
10 Mind-Altering Business Books from 2014
I was very pleased to be mentioned on this list, along with a dozen or so other worthy 2014 authors. Find out what makes them mind-altering at this Huffington Post article by Scott Goodson.
Here are 5 questions a leader shouldn’t ask
In this post, which ran recently on the Harvard Business Review site, I list five questions that, when asked by leaders, can actually do more harm than good.
Tony Wagner on questioning as a survival skill
Today I’m sharing a conversation I had with Harvard education superstar Tony Wagner about the power of inquiry in business and in education.
Beginning great questions with “How Might We”
My article in Harvard Business Review explores the power of 3 little words.
Eric Ries: What if everyone in the company could answer their own questions?
Eric Ries and the role of questioning within the Lean Startup methodology.
Warren on the web