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The Advice Trap
Michael Bungay Stanier
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Leadership
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Self-growth
Relationship
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In "The Advice Trap," Michael Bungay Stanier challenges your instinct to solve everyone's problems. Endorsed by Brene Brown and viewed 1.5 million times on TEDx, this follow-up to his million-copy bestseller reveals why curiosity - not advice - creates breakthrough leadership.

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The Advice Monster: Why We Rush to Give Solutions

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Imagine you're in a meeting when a colleague shares a problem. Before they've even finished explaining, you're already formulating advice. Sound familiar? This reflexive urge to solve others' problems is what Michael Bungay Stanier calls "the Advice Trap" - a pattern that undermines leadership effectiveness despite our best intentions. Why does our advice work less effectively than we think? Two fundamental reasons: we're often solving the wrong problem, and even when we're addressing the right challenge, our solutions are mediocre at best. When someone approaches with an issue, your "Advice Monster" immediately jumps to fix the first challenge mentioned rather than discovering what's really going on. The first problem shared is rarely the real one - it might be a symptom, a guess, or simply the most visible issue. By rushing to solve it, you miss addressing what truly matters. Even when you identify the right problem, you're operating with incomplete information - a mix of partial facts, assumptions, and opinions - while overestimating your own brilliance. The real cost? Dysfunctional work patterns that ripple through organizations. Advice-giving demotivates others by undermining their autonomy and signals they're only valued for implementing others' ideas, not for thinking. Meanwhile, advice-givers become overwhelmed by unnecessarily taking on everyone else's problems, creating bottlenecks that compromise team effectiveness. You can't scale your impact when everyone depends on you for answers.

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The Three Faces of Your Advice Monster

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The Hard Change: Becoming More Coach-Like

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Seven Questions That Transform Conversations

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Finding the Real Challenge: Six Conversation Patterns to Overcome

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Creating Safety: The TERA Framework

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The Courage to Be Curious: Testing Your Fears

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