Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

by ADAMS, MARILEE PH.D.

• ISBN13: 9781576756003
• ISBN10: 1576756009
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

The first edition of Marilee Adams's book introduced a surprising, life-alteringtruth: any of us can literally change our lives simply by changing the questionswe ask, especially those we ask ourselves. We can ask questions that open usto learning, connection, satisfaction, and success. Or we can ask questions thatimpede progress and keep us from getting the results we want. Asking "What greatthings could happen today?" creates very different expectations, moods, and energythan asking "What could go wrong today?" Many readers reported that they foundthemselves asking better questions before they even finished reading the book!This is the key insight that the book?s hero, Ben Knight, learns from his executive coach as the story of his transformative journey unfolds, eventually leading to breakthroughs that save his career as well as his marriage. His success rests on having become a "question man" and an inquiring leader rather than a judgmental,know-it-all answer man.In this extensively revised second edition, Adams has made the story even more illuminating and helpful, adding three new chapters as well as three powerful new tools. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is practical yet simple, giving readers an entertaining, step-by-step guide to a technique that will transform their personal and professional lives. Great results really do begin with great questions -- Marilee Adams shows you how to ask them!"Change Your Questions, Change Your Life provides powerful, practical guidelinesthat can make a real difference in all our lives." (Marshall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Won?t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful)

Author Biography

Marilee Adams, PhD, executive coach, speaker, and corporate consultant, is president and chief question officer of the Inquiry Institute (www. Inquiry Institute.com). Her clients include Lock-heed Martin, Siemens Building Technologies, DHL, Independence Blue Cross, Toronto General Hospital, the Brookings Institution, and NASA Goddard. She is also the author of The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Moment of Truth	p. 9
A Challenge Accepted	p. 19
The Choice Map	p. 35
We're All Recovering Judgers	p. 53
Kitchen Talk	p. 63
Switching Questions	p. 73
Seeing with New Eyes, Hearing with New Ears	p. 91
Learner Teams and Judger Teams	p. 99
When the Magic Works	p. 113
Q-Storming to the Rescue	p. 127
Amour! Amour!	p. 139
The Inquiring Leader	p. 149
Question Thinking: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work	p. 157
Notes	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 189
About the Author	p. 193
About the Inquiry Institute	p. 196
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