Jack Welch Quotes

Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

Successful leaders are great askers

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.