Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Fifth Edition - by Marilee Adams (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The international bestseller that's transformed more than half a million lives returns with new tools for thriving in the digital age through the power of better questions.

Discover how the proven Choice Map framework and Question Thinking methodology drive breakthrough results in business leadership, workplace culture transformation, and team performance across all organizational levels.

In this updated fifth edition, Dr. Marilee Adams shares powerful Question Thinking tools that help shift from a limiting Judger mindset to an expansive Learner perspective.

Through an engaging business fable following manager Ben Knight's workplace transformation journey, readers learn to recognize when they're trapped in the Judger Pit of blame, stress, and limitation--and how to escape using the revolutionary Choice Map visual framework. This proven decision-making tool illustrates exactly how different questions lead to dramatically different leadership outcomes and workplace results.

This expanded edition includes the following new material:

• A new chapter on how to use AI with Question Thinking ethically and for the common good
• All new practical tools based on the latest emotional intelligence research
• Fresh insights for applying these principles in a technology-driven world

Whether readers are leaders building collaborative teams, coaches helping others reach their potential, or people navigating personal challenges, this book offers a proven path to better decisions, stronger relationships, and breakthrough results in life and work.

Review Quotes

"Marilee's writings are by far the most profound articulation of the power of the question that I've come across. It's true: we live in worlds our questions create."
--David Cooperrider, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and Founder, Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit

"When we change our questions, we open our minds and our consciousness expands. This book is a masterful volume designed for those who wish to be fully alive."
--Robert E. Quinn, Cofounder, Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan, and coauthor of The Economics of Higher Purpose

"Our complex world demands that we ask different questions, but the power of habit throws us into the Judger Pit. Dr. Adams shows us how to get out of the Judger Pit and stay out--and how to improve our relationships, our work, and our lives with a new mindset that offers more helpful questions."
--Jennifer Garvey Berger, EdD, author of Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

"As a fellow champion of the power of questioning, I consider Marilee Adams to be one of the pioneers in this field. The storytelling format of Change Your Questions makes the book a breeze to read while the Question Thinking Users Guide shows how practical her work really is."
--Warren Berger, author of A More Beautiful Question

About the Author

Marilee Adams, PhD, award-winning author, is a pioneer in inquiry-based coaching, leadership, and organizational culture. The originator of the Question Thinking methodologies, she is CEO and founder of the Inquiry Institute and a consultant for organizations large and small. Dr. Adams is an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead's Executive Education Program at Case Western Reserve University and for ten years was an adjunct professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.