Ask Better Questions

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Leslie K. John and Alison Wood Brooks, professors at Harvard Business School, say people in business can be more successful by asking more and better questions. They talk through what makes for a great question, whether you’re looking to get information or get someone to like you. They’re the coauthors of the article, “The Surprising Power of Questions,” in the May–June 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
0:03.8	HPR have a great new podcast for you. It's called New Here. Think of it like the
0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
0:12.8	Share new here with the young professionals in your life.
0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green-Carl. For the last 10 years it's been my job as host of this podcast to ask questions.
0:51.0	When I started I got a simple piece of advice that I've always tried to come back to.
0:55.8	Ask what you think the listener would want to know.
0:59.0	But there's a lot more that goes into asking good questions than just that.
1:02.6	So I'm excited to sit down today
1:04.4	with two people for expert question askers.
1:07.5	Our guests are Leslie John and Allison Woodbrooks,
1:10.7	both faculty at Harvard Business School.
1:13.0	They're the co-authors of the HBO article,
1:15.0	The Surprising Power of Questions.
1:18.0	They're here to talk about how to ask questions at work,
1:21.0	ones that will help your conversations become more productive and help you bond with your team.
1:25.0	Leslie, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:30.0	Thanks for having me.
1:31.0	And Allison, thank you for coming back. I am so happy to coming back.
1:32.8	I am so happy to be back.
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