The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
NPR's Hidden Brain
by Michael Bungay Stanier
Narrated by Michael Bungay Stanier
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A leadership book that tells you to talk less — narrated by the author himself, who clearly did not get the memo about brevity.
- Great if you want: practical tools you can use in your next meeting
- Listening experience: brisk and workshop-like — done in a single commute
- Narration: Stanier sounds like he's coaching you directly, not reading
- Skip if: you want depth over a repeatable seven-question framework
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About This Audiobook
Seven questions stand between most managers and genuinely effective leadership. Michael Bungay Stanier's practical guide challenges the instinct to dispense advice and instead makes a case for curiosity as the foundation of good management. Drawing on behavioral science and years of training thousands of managers worldwide, Stanier presents a framework that turns coaching from a scheduled event into an everyday conversational habit. The goal is simpler than most leadership books promise: ask better questions, talk less, and let people find their own solutions.
Stanier narrates his own work, and the match between voice and content is seamless. His tone is wry and unhurried, reflecting the book's own preference for listening over lecturing. At just over four hours, the runtime respects the listener's time without feeling rushed. The short, chapter-by-chapter structure makes the material easy to absorb in commute-sized segments, and Stanier's delivery gives the advice a lived-in quality that a different narrator would struggle to replicate.