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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)
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Sales rank 16,585
Customers rating (based on 9 reviews)
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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.
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| Publisher | Jossey-Bass | | Release date | 09/2005 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $27.95 | | Our price | $18.45 (you save 33.99%) | | Used price | from $13.5 |
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 Great Read!
While reading this book, I had to have a couple crucial conversations. Prior to going into them I came up with a couple questions that would inspire dialog and happy to report that they went much better than expected. It's nice to have a book that you can relate to and use in daily conversations. I have been a leader for four years and really wish that I had these tools when I started!
Useful Management Book
For over 10 years, I have been teaching the use of questions as a coaching, management, and leadership tool (in MBA programs, internal-organizational coaches in training courses, and coaches in training). This book is the best resource I have found for the use of questioning as a leadership, management, and coaching tool. It gives theory, background and excellent examples in a variety of areas including: managing people; managing change; building strategy; and building teams.
The writing style is smooth and easy to read (the print is also easy on the eyes). Michael Marquardt has done a great service for leadership and management development as well as the coaching field. I highly recommend it for leaders, managers, coaches, AND PARENTS. It posits a credible and effective communication style.
practical tool to energize people around you
This is a wonderful book to read for any leader and anyone who facilitates workshops on leadership. When you believe that leadership is about creating a culture, then this book is THE tool for it. As an executive coach, I recommend this book to all my clients since it will give them examples of powerful questions in many different situations. I would also like to point your attention to resource A which deals with Action Learning, another tool that can help break through "stuck team" situations.
 tedious and somewhat banal discussion
Leading With Questions is an "opener" sort of book. The value in a work of this nature is perhaps in getting a general discussion of question thinking vs. answer thinking off the ground. One might consider it as an introductory text for MBA, communications, or negotiation studies. Marquardt basically sets forth his thesis then ploddingly exapands on the obvious or near obvious while the reader searches for a nugget of insight here and there. Does that make it a superfluous book ? No, because we are culturally so deficient in this mode of thinking that the idea of shifting to question expertise versus the appearance of having all the answers does constitute an important perspective reversal. For some, this may come as a revelation. For others already versed in questioning skills, such as legal professionals or therapists, this will be a needless restatement of well understood techniques.
Marquardt often pads his work by using the same passages of quotation over again at multiple points in the discussion, and he offers no suprising real world scenes of questions in action.
The book generally sounds as if a pile of lecture notes and broadly valid observations taken at some distance from the furnace of real action were cobbled together into a kind of doughy handbook of not such bad ideas.
Leading with Questions . . . . . . .
It was a birthday gift for a son and he was very pleased with the book
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