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Summary: Excellent
Review: A friend of mine told me that his company was having phenomenal results using QBQ in its sales training and suggested I check out the book. I read it in about an hour---its precepts are simple and practical, and what is amazing is that they ACTUALLY work! Kudos to Miller. We are now employing QBQ in our customer service training and we hope to expand its use to other divisions in the coming year.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: What a great book! Someone at work gave this to me and it knocked my socks off! Boy do we - and I - need this book. I've read it twice already and know I'll go through it again and again. Don't wait - the sooner you read it, the sooner you'll see the difference in your life!
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Summary: QBQ! works well for managers
Review: As a corporate training manager, I look for practical tools that people can study and then use. We are using QBQ! as a component of our leadership training for new and experienced managers. So often managers blame their people instead of demonstrating humility by asking QBQs like "How can I improve me?" We've found that QBQ! gives a manager a real foundation for leading and managing better, while improving themselves. They are then also more receptive to skills training. There really is nothing else like QBQ! that gives people a specific way or method for getting rid of blame and victim thinking. We are now going corporate wide with this message.
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Summary: If it is to be, it's up to me!
Review: Personal accountability through the medium of questions is exquisitely executed in this timeless treasure. This is a book you will keep on your bookshelf for your children. This book earns 5 stars. Additionally, I strongly recommend Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self, another timeless, universal resource, which provides the questions necessary to be our best, maximize and situation, and bring out the best in others. By asking the best questions to invite the best answers, we can truly make the most of our careers and our lives.
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Summary: Making Personal Accountability Simple
Review: I loved the QBQ and highly recommend it to all. Personal accountability is a term that seems to be used often, but understood by few. The QBQ clearly shows you how to take personal accountability -- by asking the right questions. By framing your questions the right way, you will avoid creating more problems by blaming others and instead deal with the real issues head on.
If you are a manager, a parent, a teacher, or anyone that is in a leadership position, this book is for you.
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Summary: No profound insight here !
Review: First I want to give credit where credit is due. There is truth in this book in that many people look to place the blame for their unhappiness, inadequacies and feelings of helplessness on other people or circumstances supposedly beyond their control. The real truth is that we only control ourselves and not perfectly at that. Further, we only have the ability to influence, not control others. Having said this, the beneficial part of this book can be summed up in the following statement. If we learn in each situation not to try to find whom or what to blame, since we have no control over others, but rather how we can take control of the situation and resolve it ourselves, we will greatly reduce the feeling of helplessness we experience. More simply stated learn to ask in each situation "What steps must I take to resolve this?" By doing this you take charge of your life putting yourself back in control. Also notable is the fact that chapter 36 "Wisdom" is the shortest chapter in the book. Chapter 37 "We Buy Too Many Books" applies to this book.
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Summary: simple message, powerful results
Review: Every day we are faced with hundreds of choices. Many of them are so routine and seemingly insignificant that we don't think twice about them. Ultimately, where we are and where we end up in our life is the result of each and every one of those choices. If you aren't happy with where you are right now, start looking at the choices you make. Want to start making better choices for your life? Start asking better questions.For years in my life, without realizing it, I had been asking questions that wrongly deflected responsibility from me to my family, friends and associates. Not only was that punishing them, it kept me from growing and becoming the husband, father and friend I wanted to be. QBQ helped me to "reframe" different situations and start asking questions that would yield positive solutions rather than dwell on problems. With a healthy dose of humor, Miller shows us in thirty nine bite-size chapters how to accept responsibility for our own choices, actions and attitude. QBQ will show you how to approach your daily life situations with better questions. Better questions will yield better answers. Better answers will yield better long-term results. Larry Hehn, Author of Get the Prize: Nine Keys for a Life of Victory
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Summary: Ask the right questions
Review: I downloaded a copy to my palm for on the go! Great website and the book has awesome content.
It's short , sweet and to the point without a lot of fluff.
Helpful in business and parenting (:
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Summary: Ask the best questions to invite the best solutions
Review: The quality of the questions we ask determines the quality of our results. If we ask mediocre questions we invite mediocre solutions and if we ask extraordinary questions, we invite extraordinary solutions. This book asks good questions, but the questions are supoptimal. ie they leave room for unexplored alternatives and do not lead us directly to the best solution. The best book on the market on this topic is Optimal Thinking by Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D., where the reader is provided with relevant Optimal questions, and learns how to formulate and ask the best questions to invite the best possible solutions.
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Summary: What a wake-up call!
Review: I found John's book online when searching the term "execution" on Google. I was asked to read "Execution" the book to prepare for a presentation at work. As much as I tried, I just could not get through the book, even though I thoroughly agreed with the message. I decided to look for another book that offered a similar message. I read QBQ! twice in one evening! Not only did it help me create a fantastic presentation, if I must say so myself, it inspired me to contact John and ask him to present to my company. My group was "wow-ed"! The message is simple, yet people are so busy and challenged on the job and in their personal lives that pointing fingers and making excuses is easier than accepting the accountability of a situation. This book makes you think.
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