Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work

by Marilee G. Adams

Book Overview

Discover how the questions we ask ourselves and others can either expand our mindsets and open us up to exciting new possibilities or constrict our mindsets and limit our choices for successful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576756009
• ISBN13: 9781576756003
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Incredible insights

When I picked up this book I thought it would only apply to business. Boy was I wrong! I found an immediate application of question thinking techniques in an emotional family situation. Dr. Adams' work is easy to read and understand. She didn't overpopulate the book with too much information. Instead, she put the Power of Questions techniques in a workbook later in the book to be referred to easily. This book will enhance every relationship you have. Emily Huling, author Kick Your "But" Removing the Obstacles to Sales Success

A Ticking Time Bomb of Influence

While the metaphor may not be palatable - "A Ticking Time Bomb" - I have to say, it is exactly the right way to think about Dr Adams book. You read it, wander off, not realizing you just triggered the device and boom!, it goes off in your head. Sometimes it takes a jolt to move us to higher and safer ground. Many books attempt to help us move into a more "hopeful and possible" state of mind. However, having read dozens of such books, very few are able to be grasped and remembered. Usually complex and focused on organizational theory, they offer little for the "average Joe" to implement. The power of this book can rapidly move the "average Joe" to a new height of effectiveness and position of power (so to speak). In an instant, one will move to effective behavior, sure to be noted and applauded by all - maybe even your Boss! Well done Dr. Adams. You have made a very valuable and strategic contribution to the world of personal leadership that's sure to make our lives, families, and organizations, places of health and progress. I actually applied the lessons in a very delicate organizational situation and the "switching question" saw a group of individuals move rapidly through, in a few hours, that which they have failed to do in almost a whole year. Read it, lend it, discuss it and apply it. This one is going on my website www.leadingbooks.com

A new perspective of looking at things

This book is a self-help book that offers a new perspective of looking at situations/dilemmas or any other issue. It uses 'Questions' as a way of making your attitude change from Judger (subjective) to Learner (objective). The idea of the book is told through a story with the lead character of Ben, who'd resist at first the changes, but eventually change to becoming an Inquiring person/leader. Positive points of the books (+ve): 1- Introduces new concept of 'Question Thinking' as a tool to look at everyday life issues and solve them. 2- Key points are highlighted and printed in big bold letters making it easier to remember the concepts. 3- The book is told as a story using mainly dialogue between the characters. This offers an insight into how the character of Ben (Lead character) transforms into a wonderful Leader for his team. 4- I've read for few women who've written great books. The author is at the top of the list. I think I'll enjoy meeting her. 5- The more you apply the tools, I believe, the more you're life will be changed for the better. I'll adopt them starting now. 6- At the end of the book is a 'Workbook' chapter explaining key concepts, which makes it easier for reference. 7- The 'Question Thinking' tools have been applied well to demonstrate how useful they can be at work, firing up creativity, improving relationships, most important of all : seeing yourself in a new perspective and respectively, changing to the better. Negative points of the book (-ve): (None)

Life Changing

Do you stay awake at night wondering how your relationships, both at work and home can improve? Wonder how you could improve your communication with coworkers, family, your boss, or employees? Wonder about your life in general? In the style of Og Mandino, Dr. Adams has captured the spirit of the storyteller with an awesome message of how to take those "wonderings", recraft those questions ultimately changing the answers for your life. I have read this book four times. Each time I learn something new and to put into action. Don't wait! Buy this book! Read it, implement the tools in your life, then SHARE this book with friends, neighbors and coworkers. They will thank you for it! They've thanked me already!

New Dimensions in Problem-Solving and Creative Thinking

I had the extraordinary honor and pleasure of reading this book and offering my opinion on it prior to its publication. My first response was that this was a revolutionary work, presenting a whole new way of formulating and then asking questions. What the author describes is a way of opening up a vast area of our minds--simply by knowing how to access the hidden powers of the question. What's even more amazing about this book is that the author accomplishes so much in so few pages--and does it in a way that is as entertaining as it is informative. A real page-turner with a practical message! Written as a story, just as we find in WHO MOVED MY CHEESE or Sheldon Bowles' GUNG HO!, Dr. Adams has used the art of the story-teller to open our minds to a brand new set of possibilities that we can apply, in a practical way, to every area of life, but most particularly in our business and personal lives. This is a 'must-read' and, like WHO MOVED MY CHEESE, it can change forever how you think about the questions you ask or hold in your mind.