11 Questions Great Managers Ask & Answer

You just walked out of the boss’ office with a shiny new title and a demanding new project to manage. Before the promotion, in your old world, you were an expert. Back there, you knew all the questions and all the answers. Now, in your new world of management, you are not an expert anymore. You’re professionally petrified – how am I going to successfully manage this task?This book presents a paradigm for successful managers that flips the need for the right answers to a need for great questions. The Socratic Management Paradigm says you need to:?know the right questions to ask of your team, ?segue to insightful follow-on questions, ?recognize wrong answers, ?know where to find the right answers, and?know in what small part of your new world you still need to be an expert. Four real-world case studies are presented to demonstrate the implementation of the paradigm.As well as asking questions of others, the paradigm suggests the reader ask questions of themselves. Are you, as the manager:?Asking questions well? ?Being honest and courageous??Demonstrating the principles of flexibility, rational skepticism, and positivity? ?Listening and speaking to yourself? ?Connecting management and leadership??Simplifying?