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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What to Ask »

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Authors: Michael J. Marquardt
ISBN-13: 9780787977467, ISBN-10: 0787977462
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Michael J. Marquardt

Michael Marquardt is an internationally noted educator and consultant, and professor of human resource development and program director of Overseas Programs at George Washington University. He is also the director of the Global Institute for Action Learning.

Book Synopsis

In 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.

Table of Contents

1An underused management tool11
2Benefits of a questioning culture27
3Why we have trouble with questions51
4Asking the right questions63
5The art of asking questions77
6Creating a questioning culture97
7Using questions in managing people115
8Using questions to build teams133
9Using questions to shape strategy and enable change153
Conclusion : becoming a questioning leader171
Resource ATraining programs for questioning leaders175
Resource BBiographies of leaders interviewed191

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