Tag Archives: questions

June 21

What you could learn from ‘Humble Inquiry’ by Edgar Schein (2013, 110 pages)

While asking questions is one of the most powerful tools leaders possess, it is very easy to get wrong, especially under stress. I am very inquisitive.  I love to ask questions, learn, debate and argue to find out more. However, I have received consistent feedback that I can be pretty brutal, and that sometimes people […]

October 28

Leadership hack – 014 asking questions is more powerful than telling people what to do

Evidence suggest that if you tell people exactly what to do, they will be less motivated, less likely to improvise if things go wrong and you will experience poorer results – see The Human Side Of Enterprise, published in 1960! So, if you are not going to tell people exactly what to do, how do […]