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5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books)
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5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Joan C. Williams, Marcus Buckingham, Frances X. Frei
May 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
27h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Surprising Power of Questions

by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John

MUCH OF AN EXECUTIVE’S WORKDAY is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider how their own answers to questions could make conversations more productive.

That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and performance improvement, ...

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ISBN: 9781647824402