The Advice Trap
You’ve got advice. That’s the problem.
The Advice Trap shows why your best move isn’t giving answers — it’s staying curious a little longer. Tame your Advice Monster. Listen more. Talk less. Change everything.
The Advice Trap goes deeper into the behaviour change needed to turn curiosity into your superpower.
What You’ll Learn:
- The difference between Easy Change and Hard Change, and the connection to You 2.0
- Who the three Advice Monsters are (Tell-It, Save-It, and Control-It), and how to tame them in yourself and others
- New questions and new ways to work with questions in combination
- What the heck the six Foggy-fiers are and how they get in the way of getting clear on the real challenge
- How to peel back the three essential attributes of leadership and how to learn from failure
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What Readers are Saying:
This book speaks truth
“When the best leaders do less themselves, they get more from others. But learning to do less can be painfully hard. Fortunately, Michael Bungay Stanier applies his signature wit and clarity to the challenge, which means making hard change just got a whole lot easier.”
Michael has helped evolve how we think
“Being a coach-like manager and being coached is a core part of our culture at Microsoft — it’s how talented people thrive and grow. Michael has helped evolve how we think about coaching and how it can bring our growth mindset to life.”
The Advice Trap is your guide for bringing humanity back to the workplace.
“The Advice Trap is the antidote for bureaucratic inertia. When we default to giving advice, it limits our impact, our freedom, and even our state of existence. The Advice Trap is your guide for bringing humanity back to the workplace. You cannot be a leader if you do not own this book.”
Becoming more mindful, curious, and humble is a prescription one cannot argue with
“The Advice Trap is a most useful book in pointing out the many ways in which we misconstrue both what we think We know and what we think the Other Person in the conversation knows and wants. Becoming more mindful, curious, and humble is a prescription one cannot argue with, and this book makes a good case for why those behaviors work better than tell, tell, tell.”
Not many books change me on first read, but this one is useful immediately
“I’ve been looking for this book for a very long time. Not many books change me on first read, but this one is useful immediately and is written in the Bungay Stanier thoughtful and charming style that makes it stick.”
The Advice Trap guides readers to more effective mentorship and success.
“If you desire to share your wisdom with others, but want to do so in a way that can truly help the other person, read this book! The Advice Trap unpacks why helpful advice often doesn’t stick and guides readers to more effective mentorship and success.”
Highly, highly recommended.
“This is actually a brilliant book. I enjoy just skimming through it to see what great idea I’ll run across. And I love the playful style — one of Michael’s super-powers, I’m sure — especially because it always illuminates rather than obscures the point. It’s also eminently practical, so you’ll gain pointers you can use almost immediately. Highly, highly recommended.”
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