Aspiring leaders are hungry to learn all that they can about how to be a more effective leader.
And certainly there are tools and best practices young leaders should know and add to their
toolkit. But - as Steve Mostyn one of the world's leading innovators in executive leadership
has learned over the past decades of teaching this cohort - two equally useful activities for
the aspiring leader are reflection and experimentation . In his new book WHY GREAT LEADERS
ASK GREAT QUESTIONS Mostyn has crafted an elegant collection of the seven provocative
questions aspiring leaders should ask themselves in order to spur that reflection and
experimentation. These are some of the most important questions Mostyn poses to each cohort of
the Oxford Executive Leadership program's students honed by the past answers and engagement of
thousands of students. The book is simple in conception profound in execution. In seven
accessible chapters with exercises research and examples the reader will engage with these
questions: How do I reflect? How do I spend my time? Where does my power come from? How
do I grow my network? How do I make change happen around here? How do I manage my energy?
How do I grow more leaders? Inspired in part by Mostyn's work on the Oxford Executive
Leadership Programme - an accelerated international leadership development program with over 5
000 alumni around the world - and in part by his numerous workshop sessions where he challenges
and supports leaders through his unique questions the premise of the book is well-tested with
aspiring and practicing leaders and is proven to spark both reflection and growth. These
seven questions are drawn from the author's deep experience with the needs of rising young
executives. Readers will engage with provocative exercises highly accessible overviews of
applicable research and examples from fellow mid-career executives.
