{"id":873689,"date":"2025-09-17T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:13:09","slug":"the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"The Types of Questions Every Leader Should Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"details-section\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"#details-section\">\n        <span>September 17, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leslie K. John<\/strong> and <strong>Alison Wood Brooks,<\/strong> 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\u2019re looking to get information or get someone to like you. They\u2019re the coauthors of the article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/05\/the-surprising-power-of-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Surprising Power of Questions<\/a>,\u201d in the May\u2013June 2018 issue of <em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key episode topics include: <\/strong>business communication, persuasion, behavioral science, decision making and problem solving<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to the original <em>HBR IdeaCast<\/em> episode: <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/podcast\/2018\/05\/ask-better-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask Better Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find more episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/01\/podcast-ideacast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HBR IdeaCast<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Discover 100 years of Harvard Business Review articles, case studies, podcasts, and more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/\">hbr.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/podcast\/2025\/09\/the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lawanda Damron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2025 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\u2019re looking to get information or get someone to like you. They\u2019re the coauthors of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,3847],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-873689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-questions","8":"category-types"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}