Seven questions, one discipline: stay curious slightly longer before offering the answer.
Bungay Stanier built this for managers who have no intention of becoming coaches and no time to train as one. The seven questions are deliberately plain — what's on your mind, and what else, and what's the real challenge here for you — and the book's real subject is the advice-giving reflex they are meant to interrupt.
It is short, repetitive by design, and light on evidence. Treat it as a practice manual rather than a research summary; the value is in whether the questions survive contact with your calendar.
Our Take
Seven plain questions and one discipline: stay curious a little longer before offering advice. A short, practical book that can change what a busy manager does on Monday, precisely because it asks for so little.
Bungay Stanier, M. (2016). The coaching habit: Say less, ask more and change the way you lead forever. Box of Crayons Press. Find it
