454R: How to Ask Better Questions, with David Marquet

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

David Marquet: Leadership is Language
David Marquet is the former commander of the U.S.S. Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered attack submarine. Under David’s command, the ship had an impressive turnaround, achieving the highest retention and operational standings in the Navy.

David is the author of the bestseller Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders* and his newer book, Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t*.

In this rebroadcast, David and I explored the seven sins of questioning. David shared the story of the ill-fated El Faro and how we can discover better information in leadership by making the shift from self-affirming to self-educating.
Seven Ways to Ask Better Questions

Instead of questions stacking, try one and done.
Instead of a teaching moment, try and learning moment.
Instead of a dirty question, try a clear question.
Instead of a binary question, start the question with “what” or “how.”
Instead of a “why” question, try “tell me more.”
Instead of a self-affirming question, try self-educating questions.
Instead of jumping to the future, start with the present, past, then future.

Resources Mentioned

Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t* by David Marquet
Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders* by David Marquet

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0:00.0	Hi, Dave Stahoviac here, host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast.
0:03.8	I am taking a very brief break for the next two weeks over the holidays on airing new episodes.
0:10.0	However, I am not leaving you without listening because every single week I'm having
0:14.9	conversations with our members who are looking for resources and some of the best models, the best wisdom from the
0:22.1	experts we've featured on the show over the years. And there are many episodes I keep coming
0:28.0	back to and recommending. And one of them is the episode you are about to hear. David Marquet is a
0:35.1	former U.S. Navy captain of the USS Santa Fe and the author of a book that is one of the most compelling leadership books I've read in the last decade called Turn the Ship Around.
0:46.6	David's been gracious to come on the show a couple of times over the years.
0:50.6	And we had a conversation a while back about how to ask better questions.
0:55.3	As much as I love David's book, Turn the Ship Around, it's his follow-up book that I think
1:00.6	about more on a daily basis.
1:02.6	And that book is called Leadership is Language, the Hidden Power of What You Say and What
1:08.4	You Don't.
1:09.3	And the reason I think about his book all the time is because I
1:12.5	notice it in almost every interaction. The sins of question asking that he points out and
1:18.8	seven ways that we can ask better questions as leaders. I keep coming back to this model.
1:25.7	It is one that I am still working on getting better at myself, and I'm inviting our members to continually get better at asking questions.
1:33.8	And it's why I'm sharing this conversation with you again.
1:36.7	This is a rebroadcast of Coaching for Leaders, Episode 454.
1:42.8	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
1:52.2	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
1:55.3	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
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