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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDChange Your Questions, Change Your Life
is an international bestseller whose global reputation has spread largely through word of mouth. 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. She teaches how to instead ask the kinds of questions that lead to our biggest breakthroughs and successes. 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.
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!
Synopsis
NEW EDITION, EXPANDED AND UPDATED Great Results Begin with Great Questions
In this new expanded edition of her classic international bestseller, Marilee Adams shows how the kinds of questions we ask shape our thinking and can be the root cause of many personal and organizational problems. She uses a highly instructive and entertaining story to show 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 third edition includes a new introduction and epilogue and two powerful new tools that show how Question Thinking can dramatically improve coaching and leadership. Based on Adams's decades of research and experience, this book can make a life-transforming difference--as it already has for many thousands of people around the world.
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Marilee G. Adams Ph.D. is the leading expert on Question Thinking™. A dedicated educator, coach, workshop facilitator and keynote speaker, she is an adjunct professor at American University, School of Public Affairs, teaching in the Key Executive Leadership Program. She has also been a guest lecturer at Teachers College at Columbia University and teaches the Learner Mindset System in a wide variety of organizational, educational, and public settings. Her workshops and conferences have attracted educators from throughout the United States as well as from Canada, mainland China and Singapore.Marshall Goldsmith is the million-selling author or editor of 31 books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers,MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Table of Contents
Preface (new)Introduction
(new)
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: Seeing with New Eyes, Hearing with New Ears
8: Learner Teams and Judger Teams
9: When the Magic Works
10: When the Magic Stops
11: Q-Storming to the Rescue
12: The Inquiring Leader
Question Thinking Workbook: 12 Powerful Tools for Life and Work