Good Leaders Ask Great Questions

Half way through this book. This book will force you to ask hard questions of yourself. Highly recommend.

Practical! On word review for this book. In my opinion every leader should have this one. I enjoyed it thoroughly and keep it as a ready reference.

Great book, all aspiring leaders should read it.

Get the basics of Leadership right, this is that book - leadership 101. Very profound insights & rightly used metaphors. This book must be atleast a reference guide for every student during their high school education

This book is simply amazing..It talkes about how questioning bring clearity and that ultimately lead to better path..

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"Good Leaders Ask Great Questions" caught my attention immediately upon publication. The art and power of asking questions became a subject of interest for me in the 1990s as I watched the award-winning PBS Fred Friendly Seminars. Friendly utilized the Socratic Dialogue format to explore urgent social and public policy issues. Socratic questioning is disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes, including: to explore complex ideas, to get to the truth of things, to open up issues and problems, to uncover assumptions, to analyze concepts, to distinguish what we know from what we don't know, to follow out logical implications of thought or to control the discussion. Author John Maxwell in "Good Leaders" adapts this format to great, day-to-day leadership by emphasizing the effective use of questions for: * Getting profound answers with profound questions that can facilitate confidence, wise decision-making, crystal-clear focus in life, prioritization. * Unlocking and opening doors that otherwise remain closed, yielding possibilities that can lead to opportunities, experiences, and understanding people. * Connecting with people. What is asked matters. So does how it is asked. * Cultivating humility. Fear of being unable to say "I don't know" keeps leaders vulnerable and insecure. * Engaging others in conversation. Great questions communicate to others that you value them and tyou want to add value to them. * Building better ideas by providing different perspectives. The true spirit of dialogue is essential to creativity by building on another's observation, not overturning it. * Minimizing faulty assumptions about other people. "Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right." * Challenging mind-sets and getting us out of ruts. The question "why" is a question of discovery. Maxwell's book is segmented into two parts.Part One "Questions I Ask" focuses on "What questions do I ask myself as a leader?" and "What questions do I ask my team." These include (with an explanation of the importance of each): Are you investing in yourself? How do you see your future? How do others see you? Are you generally interested in others? Are you grounded? Are you adding value? Are you staying in your strength zone? Are you investing your time with the right people? How good a listener are you? Do I want to hear what I need to hear? Do I interrupt? What do you think? How can I serve you? What did you learn? What do I need to know? What am I missing? Part Two "Questions Leaders Ask Me" was sourced from questions solicited via twitter, Facebook, Maxwell's blog, and 4000 certified coaches. These include questions like: What must I do to lead myself successfully? How does leadership work? How do I get started in leadership? How do I resolve conflict and lead challenging people? How can I succeed working under poor leadership? How can they successfully navigate leadership transitions? How can I develop leaders? Much in part two is derived from previous books by Maxwell. This is useful as it is a good reminder of fundamental leadership issues, issues which need constant reinforcement. One specific list of questions that will benefit all readers is his list of questions on how people can lead themselves successfully. "Good Leaders" will be useful to those in leadership or aspire to leadership roles. Maxwell shows how a disciplined and thoughtful question-based approach provides an effective tool box for the leader and his/her team. Examples include questions that: * Help others to clarify their thinking, e.g., `Why do you say that?', `Could you explain further?' * Challenge others about assumptions, e.g., `Is this always the case?', `Why do you think that this assumption holds here?' * Clarify evidence as a basis for dialogue and decisions, e.g., `Why do you say that?', `Is there reason to doubt this evidence?' * Provide alternative viewpoints and perspectives and biases, e.g., `What is the counter-argument?', `Can/did anyone see this another way?' * Highlight Implications and consequences, e.g., `But if...happened, what else would result?', `How does...affect...?' * Question the question, e.g., `Why do you think that I asked that question?', `Why was that question important?', `Which of your questions turned out to be the most useful?' Questioning is intimately connected with critical thinking because the art of questioning is important to excellence of thought. Critical thinking and Socratic questioning both seek meaning and truth. Critical thinking provides the rational tools to monitor, assess, and perhaps reconstitute or re-direct our thinking and action. Socratic questioning is an explicit focus on framing self-directed, disciplined questions to achieve that goal. John Maxwell is recognized internationally as a leadership expert and has written many books focusing on leadership. Titles include "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" , "The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow," "Developing the Leader Within You." Each sold over a million copies. He has been named to Amazon.com's Hall of Fame. "Good Leaders Ask Great Questions" is as provocative as his earlier titles. it highlights the role great questions play in critical thinking, and it challenges the reader to assess his/her ability to ask great questions. Maxwell continues to ask himself the same questions he discussed in Chapter 2 over and over again. They continue to guide his leadership and help him to harness and be accountable for the gifts and advantages he has been given. Maxwell believes that by asking questions, he can also harness the power of every member of his team. Asking questions begs to be developed and should become a regular discipline...as "Good leaders ask great questions."

Excellent read and very thought provoking. My first John Maxwell book. There are 10 people who I know have this book and we have been going through the book togther chapter by chapter as a Mastermind in London. So far the book is great and the mastermind brings the content to life.

This was a book recommended by Craig Groeschel on his Leadership Podcast. The Podcast and the book are highly recommended

The book is a monologue on how great the writer is – try counting the instance of “I” in the book.

was searching for this book for some time and finally was able to read it, than you so much, highly recommended