This leadership challenge book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding what matters most to take action, increase effectiveness and get practical results. This book contains more than 500 provocative questions that probe 18 compelling topics the successful people Greg works with examine regularly to help them improve business performance…and get more of what they want out of their life.
Provocative questions. They provide an opportunity for us to ponder issues we’ve taken for granted, never considered or purposefully ignored. Each question represents an opportunity to help you understand what matters most to you in order to take action, increase your effectiveness, and enhance your personal life. Practical results.
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"That's a great question," the CEO said.
The two of us were sitting in his office and we were in the middle of our monthly coaching session.
It was a stiletto moment. I'd pierced the heart of the CEO's issue, and now he was feeling a bit queasy.
The question I'd posed to the CEO may not have been one of the truly great questions of all time, but it was nevertheless an insightful question because it caused him to confront from a different perspective a tough issue he"d been wrestling with for some time.
So there we were – the CEO and me – in his office. He was thinking. I was waiting for his response.
After about 30 seconds of silence that felt more like 30 minutes, the CEO said the words I was waiting to hear.
"I hadn't really looked at it from that perspective," he said. He then made a decision and told me the action he would take based on having considered the issue from a fresh perspective.
That's the power of a great question. It provides an opportunity to ponder issues that may have been taken for granted, never considered or purposefully ignored. It allows us to think differently about those issues. And then prompts us to dig deeper to expose – within ourselves and within others – what's most meaningful.
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