did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780399526145

The 7 Powers of Questions Secrets to Successful Communication in Life and at Work

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780399526145

  • ISBN10:

    0399526145

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Perigee Trade
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $14.95

Summary

(Perigree) Shows the reader how to improve relationships through communication by asking the right questions, ways to find out what people want and need, persuasion techniques, how questions can uncover opportunities, the four barriers to getting the right information, and the fifty smartest questions to ask. Softcover. DLC: Interpersonal communication.

Author Biography

Dorothy Leeds, a much-in-demand motivational speaker, is also a communications consultant who has trained more than half a million executives for major corporations including ITT, Merck, Merrill Lynch, and IBM. The author of Smart Questions: The Essential Strategy for Successful Managers among other books on persuasion and the art of speaking in business, Ms. Leeds has written and been featured in articles in the New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, and Money magazine, as well as appearing frequently on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Smart Money, and MoneyTalk. A native New Yorker, Ms. Leeds holds a graduate degree from Columbia University and continues to reside in New York City when she is not on tour lecturing or promoting her many books. Dorothy prides herself on knowing more about asking questions than anyone on the planet.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Why a Book About Questions?
1(14)
Questions Demand Answers
15(21)
Questions Stimulate Thinking
36(25)
Questions Give Us Valuable Information
61(28)
Questions Put You in Control
89(21)
Questions Get People to Open Up
110(21)
Questions Lead to Quality Listening
131(26)
Questions Get People to Persuade Themselves
157(12)
Sell, Lead, Think: Use Questions to Transform Your Organization
169(47)
Closer Knit Than Ever: How Questions Can Draw Families Together
216(28)
Rediscover Questions: Recapture and Redefine the Essential You
244(27)
The Fifty Smartest Questions
271(9)
Suggested Reading 280(4)
Postscript 284(3)
Index 287

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program