One of my mentors recommended this book called Socratic Selling: How to Ask the Questions That Get the Sale to improve my selling and consulting skills which are quite applicable in various scenarios. The book's structure is straightforward. The beginning chapters explain the importance of socratic method, which is well known a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. It highlights 3 socratic principles: Respect the customer, Help the customer think and Help the customer made decisions . The remaining chapters explain how to apply along the sales cycle, i.e., opening, advancing and closing. The opening aims at letting the customer speak what he wants in the underlying. The book advises a socratic opener structure, i.e. Say you are prepared . e.g. Mr. Customer, I'm prepared to talk about the Product, which we discussed on the ph...