Ask more : the power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions, and spark change / Frank Sesno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sesno, Frank, author.

Blitzer, Wolf, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Questioning.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

2017.

New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An Emmy-award-winning journalist reveals how to ask the QUESTIONS that make a difference. What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More . From questions that cement relationships, to those that help us plan for the future, each chapter in Ask More explores a different type of inquiry. By the end of the book, you’ll know what to ask and when, what you should listen for, and what you can expect as the outcome. Packed with illuminating interviews, the book explains: How the Gates Foundation used strategic questions to plan its battle against malaria How turnaround expert Steve Miller uses diagnostic questions to get to the heart of a company’s problems How NPR’s Terry Gross uses empathy questions to dig deeper How journalist Anderson Cooper uses confrontational questions to hold people accountable How creative questions animated a couple of techie dreamers to brainstorm Uber Both intriguing and inspiring, Ask More shows how questions convey interest, feed curiosity, and reveal answers that can change the course of both your professional and personal life.

Contents:

chapter 1. Why ask?

chapter 2. Something's not right : diagnostic questions

chapter 3. The general's charge : strategic questions

chapter 4. From the inside out : empathy questions

chapter 5. The gentle interrogator : bridging questions

chapter 6. For the record : confrontational questions

chapter 7. Imagine this : creativity questions

chapter 8. The solvable problem : mission questions

chapter 9. Into the unknown : scientific questions

chapter 10. The Edison test : interview questions

chapter 11. The inspired host : entertaining questions

chapter 12. Lessons for life : legacy questions

chapter 13. I'm glad I asked.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8144-3672-2

OCLC:

968130147