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It’s time again for the Leadership Development Blog Carnival. This month’s blog carnival was put together by Mark Bennett and is being hosted at TalentedApps. This month’s offering includes submissions from 35 of the best leadership writers that I know and I’m honored to be included along with this group.
The monthly Leadership Development Blog Carnival is a great source of information related to developing leaders. Some of the information that we find helps with our own development as leaders and some helps with our development of others.
Since it’s hard to try to follow this many [...]
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I’m devoting this week’s articles to author Gary B. Cohen’s recent book, Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions. In previous articles I reviewed the book and shared an interview with Gary. Today’s article is a guest post from Gary on how Just Ask Leadership intersects with Reflection Leadership.
With so many organizations, governments, and industries imperiled by poor decision-making, leadership has come under question. And justifiably so. The knee-jerk response in times of crisis is for leaders to command more and ask less—to entrust decision-making to fewer and fewer people. But [...]
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I’m devoting this week’s articles to author Gary B. Cohen’s recent book, Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions. In a previous article I reviewed the book. Today’s article is part two of this two-part interview with Gary. The first part of this interview can be found here.
Describe some specific ways that you have used Just Ask Leadership with your clients.
When describing an incident that left them or their coworkers feeling aggrieved, my coaching clients usually provide a sequence of actions and statements. “If you’d asked them a question instead, what [...]
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I’m devoting this week’s articles to author Gary B. Cohen’s recent book, Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions. I reviewed the book in my the last article. Today’s article is part one of a two-part interview with Gary.
Why Just Ask Leadership? With so many things that leaders need to focus on, how did you decide that asking the right questions was the most important thing for leaders to focus on?
As a leader, I spent the majority of my time asking questions. I saw firsthand how open-ended questions inspired and engaged [...]
