What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
Robert Steven Kaplan

Format: Hardcover, 288 pp.
ISBN: 9781422170014
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Pub. Date: August 3, 2011

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Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization’s effectiveness.

In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and business leader Robert Kaplan presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as:

Do I clearly articulate my vision and top priorities?
Does the way I spend my time enable me to achieve my top priorities?
Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?
Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am?

This highly readable and practical guide helps you learn to ask the right questions—and work through the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game.

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Rob Kaplan is an outstanding leader and business executive. In 'What to Ask the Person in the Mirror', he provides a valuable and adaptable framework that can be used by business and nonprofit leaders. This book lays out the important questions that leaders should ask in order to achieve their goals and reach their potential.

—Henry M. Paulson, Jr., seventy-fourth Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs (1999–2006)

About the Author

Robert Steven Kaplan is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and former vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group. He is also co-chairman of Draper, Richards and Kaplan, a global venture philanthropy firm. He advises numerous companies around the world.

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