
092: Michael Bungay Stanier: The Advice Trap
About this episode
Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit. It’s the best-selling coaching book of this century, with more than 700,000 copies sold and more than 1,000 5-star reviews on Amazon. His new book is The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious, and Change the Way You Lead Forever.
What We Discuss with Michael Bungay Stanier:
- The impetus behind writing The Coaching Habit
- The two types of relationship people can have
- The genesis for The Advice Trap
- Giving advice as a human default behavior
- What an advice monster is like
- The power of active empowerment
- Where his ideas come from and how they develop them
- The degree of elegance from using metaphors
- What happens when you have a curiosity-driven organization
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