Part 3

In this section, the message was that being a leader means asking one’s followers to do things. Asking, according to Edgar Schein, who wrote Humble Inquiry “temporarily empowers the other person in the conversation” and temporarily makes the asker of the question vulnerable. Asking another person a question implies that they know something that the asker of the question needs to know. “It draws the other person into the situation and into the driver’s seat; it enables the other person to help or hurt [the asker] and, thereby, opens the door to building a relationship” (Schein 9). So being vulnerable and asking questions, even if one already knows the answer, is a good way to develop a line of communication.

Socrates used the teaching method of asking questions. Usually Socratic questions are in the form of a directive. When the responder asks a question in return, Socrates would

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