Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change

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A/B testing

accomplishments

accountability

accountability questions

aim of

vs. open-ended questions

accusation

acknowledgment

active listening, and job interviews

Adams, John

adversity

affirmation

aggressiveness, confronting power

AIDS

Airbnb

air-conditioning

Al Qaeda

alternatives, in strategic answers

ambiguity, in strategic answers

America Online

American Folklife Center

anger, listeners and

Apollo mission

Appalachian Mountains

appreciation

Arafat, Yasser

Armstrong, Lance

Associated Press Radio

atheism, of Sendak

audience

confrontation and

and entertaining

authority, responsibility of citizen to question

autoimmune system

AZT

bad news

Baker, Howard

Bank of America study of wealthy people

bankruptcy

behavioral questions, in job interview

Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s Double-Dip

benchmarks

Bernero, Ed

Berns, Gregory

Bethlehem Steel

Bial, Debbie

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

campaign against malaria

philanthropic investments

strategic approach

Bochco, Steven

Boehner, John

Brady, James

brain, systems in

brainstorming

creativity questions and

sample questions

bridging questions

affirmation and acknowledgment

echo questions

getting people talking

puzzle solving

questions without question marks

bucket list

Bush, George H.W.

AIDS research funding

Bush, George W.

on faith

State of the Union address 2004

Bush vs. Gore

businesses, creativity and innovation from employees

California, Proposition 8

Camp, Garrett

cancer patients, infectious diseases and

Case, Jean

on curveball questions

on job candidate’s confidence

Case, Steve

Case Foundation

Central Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence Estimate

challenge

interview questions on

strategic questions on

changing world

Cheney, Dick

Chochinov, Harvey

choice

Christensen, Clayton

climate data

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

cognitive ease

Cohen, Ben

comfort

command questions

communication skills, building

community

comparison

compassion

for self

compatibility questions

confrontation, audience and

confrontational questions

appropriateness

demanding answers

and listeners

persistence on

and power

reaction to

unintended consequences

conversation leadership

Conversation Series events

conversations

deathbed

hosts and

land mines in

Cooper, Anderson

cooperation

Council on Foreign Relations

creative jobs, interview for

creative tension

creative thinking, time travel in

creativity

creativity questions

beyond the possible

brainstorming

cutting strings

from disruptive thinkers

imagined reality

time travel and

credibility

cultural sensitivities, questions vs. insults

curiosity

curveball questions

in interview

Darby, Al

Darwin, Charles, hypothesis

data gathering

Davis, Jim

“Death with Dignity” law

deathbed conversation

decisions, long-term consequences

Defense of Marriage Act

defensiveness, triggers for

Delahanty, Thomas

Delphi

denial

determination

diagnostic questions

bad news and

basics

challenging experts

in health care

history in

news in

problem identification

dignity

discovery questions

doctors, training in empathetic relationship

Doka, Ken

al-Durrah, Muhammad

Dyer, Jeffrey

Ebola, 2015 crisis

echo questions

Edison, Thomas

education

eHarmony

empathy

benefits of

description

empathy questions

for digging deep

Gross and

license and limits

Riess and

therapeutic inquiry

end-of-life professionals, interviews by

entertaining questions

hosts

for laughs

Socratic method and

stage setting

entry points to story

exit strategy

expectations, exceeding

experts

challenging

questions for

eye contact

“Face the Facts USA”

failure

facing

as option, Powell and

questions on

responsibility for

family

history

questions for

family therapy

Fauci, Anthony

Federal Bureau of Investigation, training on questioning

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Fedoroff, Nina

Feinstein, Dianne

Fifield, Anna

Fink, Gary

focus groups

follow-up questions, listening for

Foster, Jodie

Franklin, Benjamin

Fresh Air program (NPR)

Gagarin, Yuri

Gallo, Robert

Gardner, Teresa

Gates, Bill

Gates, Melinda

gay population, AIDS and

George Washington University, Conversation Series events

Getty, Gordon

goals

confrontational questions and

interview questions on

listening for common

“gold standard” ethic, of Ritz-Carlton

Greenfield, Jerry

Gregersen, Hal

Gross, Terry

handwriting

Harvard Business Review

Hayden, Michael

Hinckley, John Jr.

history

as news

HIV/AIDS research

Hoberman, Tom

Holland, Cindy

Hollywood, creativity in

Hospice Foundation of America

hosts

questions

“How” questions

Hudson, Rock

hunger, program to combat

hurtful questions

Hussein, Saddam

hypothesis

evidence against

testing

I syndrome

Iacocca, Lee

icebreakers

iCivics

IEDs (improvised explosive devices)

imagined reality

immune system

India

information

in confrontation

need for

innovation

finding in job interview

in Iran

innovators, discovery skills for

insomnia, data gathering on

inspiration

internal dialogue

interview questions

Storbeck on

see also job interviews

interviews

of interviewer

intimate distance

introductions, in job interview

Iran, innovation in

Iraq, lies about biological weapons laboratories

Iraq wars

Powell’s role in

second

Isay, David

It Worked for Me (Powell)

job interviews

and active listening

behavioral questions in

confidence of candidate

preparation for

questions from applicant

situational questions in

testing candidate’s thought process

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Kahneman, Daniel

Kalanick, Travis

Katrina (hurricane 2005)

Kawa, Steve

Kennedy, John F.

Kerry, John

Kinsolving, Lester

Kuwait, Iraq invasion

land mines, in conversations

Landrieu, Mary

laughter

Leach, Rick

leadership, building qualities of

legacy questions

asking for life

facing failure

seeking context

leukemia

Library of Congress, American Folklife Center

life, meaning of

life story

listening

active, in job interview

to bridging question answers

caring and

for common goals

to confrontation question answers

to creativity question answers

to diagnostic question answers

disciplined

to empathy question answers

to entertaining question answers

by hotel staff

to mission question answers

to self

to strategic answers

by therapist

weaknesses in

“Looking Back” questions

“magic wand” questions

malaria

Gates Foundation leadership against

management jobs, interview for

Mandrieu, Mary

marriage

same-sex

McCain, John

McCarthy, Timothy

McKinsey & Company

meaning narrative

measurement

medical diagnosis

medical issues, question about

micro-affirmation

Middlebury College, ten-year strategic plan

Miller, Steve

The Turnaround Kid

mission questions

changing the world

listening for common goals

problem solving with purpose

of Ritz-Carlton

sharing works

value proposition

mobilization, for problem solving

Montagnier, Luc

mood, and entertaining

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Morgan, Tracy

mortality

approach to

Sendak on

My American Journey (Powell)

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Netflix

New Balance

New York Times

news, history as

news media

Newsom, Gavin

newsroom

9/11 attacks, public support for military action after

Nixon, Richard

North, Oliver

North Korea

NPR

objectives, strategic questions to clarify

observation

obstacles

O’Connor, Sandra Day

Olson, Ted

open-ended questions

vs. accountability questions

and trial

Operation Desert Storm

Oreck, Diana

Osborne, Karen

overdrive, brain in

parameters of project, setting

parent, interview of

partnerships, Leach and

Pelosi, Nancy

people, three-dimensional

persistence, on confrontational questioning

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

perspective taking

philanthropy

engagement as key

values supporting investments

plan, defining

political candidates, interviews with

political word association game

politicians

Posse Foundation

Powell, Colin

and failure as option

Iraq invasion of Kuwait

It Worked for Me

My American Journey

as potential Presidential candidate

as secretary of state

power, confronting

predictive analytics

Pristera, Betty

privacy, respect for

problem solving

evaluation in

mobilization for

observation to frame questions

with purpose

product, investment in

purpose

problem solving with

shared

question game

questions

for expert

reasons for

repeating

science in

as threat

without question marks

radio interview

Ramos, Jorge

“rapport building” questions

Reagan, Ronald

attempted assassination

reality, interpreting

reflective listening

Rehm, Diane

reinforcing questions

relationships, value, and confrontation

responsibility for failure

rewards

bridging questions and

Rice, Condoleezza

riddles

Riess, Helen

righteous indignation

“rights respecting” questioning

risk assessment

for confrontational questioning

Ritz-Carlton, “gold standard” ethic

Rockefeller, Jay

role-playing

Rumsfeld, Donald

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital

same-sex marriage

Schieffer, Bob

Schroeder, Chris

Startup Rising

science, in questioning

scientific investigation

approach to

scientific method

scientific questions

hypothesis testing

slow questions

“Scoping” questions

Scott, Ed

search-engine culture

Secret Service, training on questioning

secrets

self-awareness, in job candidate

Sendak, Maurice

death

Morgan’s empathetic questioning of

Where the Wild Things Are

shared purpose

shut down, reasons for

situational questions, in job interview

Sloane, Allan

slow questions

slow answers to

Smith, Lamar

Snapgoods

Socratic method

space exploration

Speakes, Larry

Spodak, Barry

and human puzzles

Startup Rising (Schroeder)

startup venture

Storbeck, Shelly

stories, brain wired for

StoryCorps

strategic questions

ambiguity in answers

to clarify objectives

on malaria

personal

Strategy Choice questions

Strategy Lifecycle

stupid questions

success

defining

in strategic answers

superhero

symptoms, diagnostic questions and

talk-show host

TaskRabbit

team, attitude

technology

and youth

testing

A/B

hypothesis

job candidates

therapeutic inquiry

therapist, empathy questions from

third party, in confrontational questioning

thought process, testing job candidate’s

threat

assessment

questions as

time travel

in creative thinking

tone, of interviewer

trade-offs, in strategic answers

trendsetters

triggers, for defensiveness

Trump, Donald

position on immigration

trust

building

questions to enhance

The Turnaround Kid (Miller)

tweets

Uber

United Nations

Powell before

Resolution 678

U. S. government, slow movement

Univision

UPS

validation

value proposition

verification questions

Vermeulen, Freek

violence, assessing risk

vision

in job interview

Wall Street Journal, labor costs

Washington Post

Waste Management

Watergate

weapons of mass destruction

Wegener’s granulomatosis

welfare reform, CNN story

Wells, John

Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)

White House Briefing Room

Whitman, Walt

WHYY radio

Wilson, Thomas

Winfrey, Oprah

workplace, clarifying expectations

World Food Program USA

World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2014

writers’ room, in Hollywood

Yaden, Greg

yes-no questions

youth, and technology