Michael Bungay Stanier

I'm Michael Bungay-Stanier.

This is Change Signal.

This is the podcast where we cut through the blather, the BS, and the noise to find the good stuff that works in change.

And I'm excited to plunge in.

So Henry, welcome.

Thank you, Michael.

Good to see you again.

Yeah, it's nice to see you too.

Ask follow-up questions.

I have Michael Bungay Sr. who's written the most prolific coaching book.

It's the number one bestseller in this century.

He's on the cover of of my book as an endorser, so I'm grateful.

I'm Michael Bungay-Stanier.

This is Change Signal.

This is the podcast where we cut through the blather, the BS, and the noise to find the good stuff that works in change.

The data is also showcasing this.

There's this amazing global thought leader called Michael Bungay Stanier.

It's got a weird hyphenated last name.

He's written a book called The Art of the Great Question or something like The Coaching Habit.

So unlike Man's Search for Meaning, nobody's picked this book on our top 1,000 yet.

However, A Short History of Nearly Everything, also by Bill Bryson, has been picked by Michael Bungay-Stanier, author of The Coaching Abbot, and Sean Acor, author of The Happiest of Ange, if you know him.

Bill Bryson was born in 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa.

He's an American-British author known for smart and accessible nonfiction writing, such as Notes from a Small Island and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's almost like when you find, like, I think it was the way when I discovered your work, when Michael Bungay-Stanier told me about you and I read Million Dollar Consulting.

And then it was like Netflix where I was like binging all of your content, like this whole catalog of just Alan White.

And you could go on, you could, I have still haven't read every book, not even close.

I'm Michael Bungay-Stanier.

This is Change Signal.

This is the podcast where we cut through the blather and the BS and the noise to find the good stuff that works in change.

And believe me, this podcast is as much for me to remember as it is for me to share with you.

So there's a book that's called The Advice Trap, and that's by Michael Bungay-Stanier, I think, or Stainer.

And he talks about something he calls the advice monster.

And I love this because it explains so much about why we feel this need to jump in and fix things.