Posts where this quotation is embeddedPeople: Peter BlockQuestions are more transforming than answers.
The skill is getting the questions right.
The traditional conversations that seek to explain, study, analyze, define tools, and express the desire to change others are interesting but not powerful.
Questions open the door to the future and are more powerful than answers in that they demand engagement.
Engagement in the right questions is what creates accountability.
How we frame the questions is decisive. They need to be ambiguous, personal, and stressful.
Introduce the questions by defining the distinction the question addresses, namely what is different and unique about this conversation.
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- We All Have the Freedom to Choose If We Choose To The last of human freedoms
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- Don’t Give Advice Especially when it is sought
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- Powerful Questions Evoke a Choice for Accountability and Commitment Peter Block
- Predicting or Controlling a Conversation Peter Block
- Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers Peter Block
- Relationship and Connectedness Are the Pre-condition for Change Peter Block
- The Question Is, What Qualifies as Action? Peter Block
- The Real Task of Leadership Is to Confront People with Their Freedom Peter Block
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