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Why Questions Matter: Research Into the Power of Questions to Shape Your World
Research shows that asking questions helps us learn better, be more likable in the short term, strengthens relationships in the long term, and helps us…
 • Amber Johnson
Three Quotes about Questions to Ponder this Week
Plus, anyone still committed to your New Year's resolution? Or wishing you were?
 • Amber Johnson
How to Get to the Real Question When You Want to Start an Important Conversation
The key to breakthrough conversations lies in asking what you genuinely don't know—invest in curiosity rather than certainty.
 • Amber Johnson
Getting Out of the RUTS: Four Types of Conversations We Avoid Most
How routine, uncertainty, tension, and significance keep us from having the conversations that matter most.
 • Amber Johnson
Stop Avoiding the Conversations that Matter
The dust bunny revelation
 • Amber Johnson
Leadership User Manuals: A Simple Tool for Understanding Your Team
What if our working relationships came with instructions, like the easy-to-read manual you got with your latest kitchen appliance?
 • Amber Johnson
Stop Making This Costly Delegation Mistake (It’s Hurting Your Career)
Why ‘it’s faster to do it myself’ is the most expensive mindset in leadership.
 • Amber Johnson
The Anatomy of Broken Trust: How Trust Violations Create a Vicious Cycle, and What To Do About It
Trust is more complex than we imagine—which makes rebuilding trust complicated. These four fundamental questions can help you examine trust on your…
 • Amber Johnson
Two Question Games to Play with Your Family this Week
Completely ridiculous games to entertain the kids and the adults
 • Amber Johnson
What Teenagers Wish Their Grandparents Would Ask Them
Why the usual questions fall flat—and what teens say actually helps bridge the generational gap
 • Amber Johnson
Permission to Feel It All When the Holidays Hurt
Learning to honor both our sadness and our joy this season
 • Amber Johnson
25 Questions to Spark Great Holiday Conversations
Fresh conversation starters for every holiday gathering—from work parties to family dinners
 • Amber Johnson
Stop Being a Conversational Dead End: How to Answer Questions That Keep People Talking
Master the art of answering, and watch your relationships deepen naturally
 • Amber Johnson
Nine Questions for Your Thanksgiving Table
Launch a great conversation, today or at your next dinner party
 • Amber Johnson
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