I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.

• What's relevant?

• What questions should we be asking?

• What's the most important thing?

• What would make you a little more uncomfortable?

• What would be your first move as CEO?

• What is the world telling you?

• How could you put yourself out of business?

• What should we start, stop, and continue?

• How much time have you thought about your team tod... See more

Some questions that I’ve found to be very effective in one-on-ones: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number-one problem with our organization? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who is really kicking ass in the company? Whom do you admire? If you were me, what changes would you make? What don’t you like about the

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Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders don’t tell people, they don’t direct people, and they don’t order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: “What would ‘great’ look like?” Here are a few oth

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(The first) question is “What’s your mind?” The last question is “What was most useful and most valuable?” The other one is “What’s the real challenge here for you?” It’s almost an identity element. It helps people figure out the real challenge rather than be the person who has the ideas. That’s actually a much rarer, more useful skill in most orga

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Instead of asking: "Do you have any questions?", ask "What questions do you have?" The first almost always results in silence, while the second helps people feel comfortable asking questions.

/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:

1. Why are we doing this? 

   1. Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.

2. What’s the simplest  explanation? 

3. What reaction should all the creative achieve? 

4. What’s your most controversial opinion? 

5. What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compo

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