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344: Book Excerpt - The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Michael Bungay Stanier is the Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. Box of Crayons is best known for its coaching programs, which give busy managers practical tools to coach in 10 minutes or less. On the way to founding Box of Crayons in 2002, Michael lived in Australia, England, the United States and Canada (his current home), where he worked in the fields of innovation and change management. He’s written a number of books, the best known of which is Do More Great Work, with almost 100,000 copies sold. He’s proudest of End Malaria, a collection of essays about Great Work by thought leaders that has raised $400,000 for Malaria No More. His latest book, The Coaching Habit, is already being called a modern classic. Episode 344: Book Excerpt - The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier. You can find his book and learn more about him here: http://boxofcrayons.biz Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Follow Sleepcove on your favorite podcast platform so you can easily find it whenever you're

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ready to wind down and relax.

0:32.9

This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 344.

0:36.3

An excerpt from the book The Coaching Habit, Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way You

0:40.8

Lead Forever by Michael Bungay, and I'm Justin Mollock.

0:45.0

Happy Saturday, welcome to the podcast where I simply read to you.

0:48.3

I get permission from the authors, and here on Optimal Living Daily, I read from popular

0:52.8

personal development and minimalism blogs like Zen Habits, Mark and Angel, the minimalist,

0:57.9

and many, many more.

0:59.4

And sometimes I get to read from books too, which is what's happening today.

1:03.2

So Michael Bungay-Stanier is a founder and senior partner of Box of Kranes, which is

1:07.7

a company that helps people and organizations all over the world do less good work and

1:12.7

more great work.

1:14.3

And his book The Coaching Habit, while it is technically a business style book, I don't

1:18.5

want to say business book because that sounds like a textbook and it's not like a textbook

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