How I Work My Favourite Tip: Zoe Chance - How asking one magic question can lead to positive change
What makes a great question?
Well, it depends on what you’re trying to figure out. Are you interviewing someone for a job, or on TV? Are you asking someone on a date? Are you trying to learn something?
Whatever it is, you probably have an answer, a solution or a direction in mind when you ask a question. That’s great, but it’s not always the path to the best outcome.
Zoe Chance, author of Influence is Your Superpower and a professor at the Yale School of Management, prefers to ask a question that allows for answers she never could’ve imagined…
Zoe tells the story of the women from a small village near Zambia who eradicated sexual slavery in their community by… building an electric fence around their corn crop? Well, if that’s what it takes…
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You can find the full episode here: Persuasion, not manipulation: Zoe Chance on how to influence for good
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Host: Amantha Imber
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