A Useful Tool and Enjoyable, Insightful Read:
I read this book and found it to be extremely useful in a number of applications. In particular if you are looking for a job or career advancement, this book gives you great ideas to help you analyze your own objectives as well as the value that you bring to your company. I think this book would be of great help to college students as well as they write papers or apply for internships. It helps you isolate what is important and to research appropriately. I would highly recommend this book. A great read on business trips - gets you thinking.
A few nice ideas but too long:
Asking questions is an important skill and this book contains some useful ideas and techniques. However, it would benefit from some serious editing as it is far too long and is badly arranged. About 150 pages less would be about right.
questions you never thought to ask:
A lot of work went into this book. You can tell the author interviewed many people in many lines of work to come up with all of these questions. The book received a good review from the ALA which recommended it to their librarians. The book was described as sagacious. When you look it up, that's means it has keen practical sense. We need more books like that. Hope this review helps.
Wonderful! - I recommend this book to my MBA students:
Recent research suggests that questioning and listening are important but often neglected skills for MBA students. Therefore this past summer I surveyed the available books on this topic to see if there was a book I could use as a resource for my new course (at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley), which requires the students to do a significant amount of interviewing. I was delighted to discover "Questions that Work." Finlayson's argument is that in this time of constant change we each need to cultivate a "personal questioning network" of people with all sorts of expertise to whom we can go for help. His book is an inspiring and practical how-to guide for the construction of, and graceful and effective use of, such a network. I recommend it highly.
High hopes, but disappointed:
I have always been a strong advocate for intelligent questioning, so was excited to see a book devoted to this topic. There were definitely some good points, but overall, I felt like I do after seeing a long movie I was anticipating to be wonderful, but turns out to be a waste of my time...I want my money back!
| Author: | Andrew Finlayson | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 650.1 | | EAN: | 9780814470770 | | Edition: | 1st | | ISBN: | 0814470777 | | Number Of Pages: | 304 | | Publication Date: | 2001-05-15 |
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