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1 online resource |
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Cover; ASK MORE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; Foreword; CHAPTER 1: Why Ask?; CHAPTER 2: Something's Not Right: Diagnostic Questions; What's the Problem?; "Miss Nosy"; The Mystery Patient; Bad News Is Good News; History Is News, Too; Challenge the Expert; After the Diagnosis, the Strategy; CHAPTER 3: The General's Charge: Strategic Questions; Set Your Sights; A Strategic Approach; A General's Command; Eight Yeses; Failure Is an Option; Getting Personal; Challenge Yourself; CHAPTER 4: From the Inside Out: Empathy Questions; The Good Professor |
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The Empathetic InterviewerTherapeutic Inquiry; License and Limits; CHAPTER 5: The Gentle Interrogator: Bridging Questions; Get Them Talking; Solving Puzzles; Affirm and Acknowledge; Questions Without Question Marks; Echo Questions; Build the Bridge; CHAPTER 6: For the Record: Confrontational Questions; Care to Listen; Unintended Consequences; Demanding Answers; Confronting Power; An Audience Helps; No Way Out; Blunt Force; CHAPTER 7: Imagine This: Creativity Questions; Beyond the Possible; Travel in Time; Cutting Strings; Imagined Reality; Ask for Subversion |
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CHAPTER 8: The Solvable Problem: Mission QuestionsListening for Common Goals; The Value Proposition; Change the World; Sharing Works; What Brings You Here?; Asking to Listen; Solve Problems with Purpose; CHAPTER 9: Into the Unknown: Scientific Questions; The Doctor's Quest; A Mystery Killer; Cultures Clash; Test but Verify; Stretch Yourself; Slow Answers to Slow Questions; CHAPTER 10: The Edison Test: Interview Questions; Hunting the Best Heads; Look Back, Look Ahead; Finding Innovation; Be Ready for the Curveball; The Candid Candidate; Asking for the Team; Interview the Interviewer |
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Bright IdeasCHAPTER 11: The Inspired Host: Entertaining Questions; Set the Stage, Set the Tone; You're On!; Supper with Socrates; Asking for Laughs; A Host of Questions; CHAPTER 12: Lessons for Life: Legacy Questions; Seeking Context; Why Didn't I Ask?; The Rabbi; Facing Failure; In Search of Meaning; Asking for Life; CHAPTER 13: I'm Glad I Asked; The Justice of Citizenship; Ask to Lead; Poems of Humanity; Always Asking; Profane and Profound; Question Guide; Diagnostic Questions; Strategic Questions; Empathy Questions; Bridging Questions; Confrontational Questions; Creativity Questions |
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Mission QuestionsScientific Questions; Interview Questions; Entertaining Questions; Legacy Questions; Index; About the Author; Free Sample The Power of Presence; About Amacom |
| Summary |
Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More. From questions that cement relationships, to those that help us plan for the future, each chapter in Ask More explores a different type of inquiry. By the end of the book, you'll know what to ask and when, what you should listen for, and what you can expect as the outcome. Both intriguing and inspiring, Ask More shows how questions convey |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Interpersonal communication.
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Questioning.
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Decision making.
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Thought and thinking.
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Decision making
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Decision Making
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Thinking
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decision making.
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thinking.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
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Thought and thinking
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Decision making
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Interpersonal communication
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Questioning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020690468 |
| ISBN |
9780814436721 |
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0814436722 |
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