Why Great Leaders Ask Great Questions

Aspiring leaders are hungry to learn all that they can abouthow to be a more effective leader. And certainly there are tools and bestpractices young leaders should know and add to their toolkit.

But – as Steve Mostyn, one of the world”s leading innovators in executiveleadership, has learned over the past decades of teaching this cohort – twoequally useful activities for the aspiring leader are reflection andexperimentation.

In his new book WHY GREAT LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, Mostyn has crafted anelegant collection of the seven provocative questions aspiring leaders shouldask themselves in order to spur that reflection and experimentation. These aresome of the most important questions Mostyn poses to each cohort of the OxfordExecutive Leadership program”s students, honed by the past answers andengagement of thousands of students.

The book is simple in conception, profound in execution. In seven accessiblechapters, with exercises, research, and examples, the reader will engage withthese questions:
How do I reflect?
How do I spend my time?
Where does my power come from?
How do I grow my network?
How do I make change happen around here?
How do I manage my energy?
How do I grow more leaders?

Inspired in part by Mostyn”s work on the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme- an accelerated international leadership development program with over 5,000alumni around the world – and in part by his numerous workshop sessions wherehe challenges and supports leaders through his unique questions, the premise ofthe book is well-tested with aspiring and practicing leaders and is proven tospark both reflection and growth.

These seven questions are drawn from the author”s deep experience with theneeds of rising young executives. Readers will engage with provocativeexercises, highly accessible overviews of applicable research, and examplesfrom fellow mid-career executives.