
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone
Building the Best Possible Relationship
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Michael Bungay Stanier
Your happiness and your success depend on your working relationships
The people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients.
But the hard truth is this: most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance.
We say “Hi,” exchange pleasantries … and hope for the best.
But every relationship becomes suboptimal at some point, whether it’s a good one that goes off the rails or one that was poor from the start.
Mostly we are resigned to the fact that this is what happens: relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre. Carry on.
But it doesn’t have to be like this.
Every working relationship can be better.
This book shows you how to build the best possible relationship.
One conversation. Five questions. Detailed guidance on how to prepare and set the relationship up for success. Key insights on how to maintain the relationship so that it will continue to thrive.
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okay. effective. nothing new
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Excellent, practical guide. Very helpful!
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Excellent
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If Relationships Matter to You
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Phenomenal insights
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Practical
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Perfect for anyone who works with other humans.
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practical tips that seem doable to build better relationships
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Maybe it's an issue with the title and subtitle. While the advice is potentially valuable to someone who wants to improve an already good relationship or is stuck due to a lack of empathy with coworkers, it adds zero value to a person struggling with a difficult character or a poorly functioning team.
To be able to work with anyone the actual practical advice would be about assigning clear responsibilities, working standards, clear methods of communication, resources, deliverables etc so that two or more people who really don't like one another all that much can still get along and get the job done without conflict that then serves as a basis for mutual respect and eventually potentially friendship.
Coming at it from a point of trying to be friends and trying to get the other person to adapt to you (and you adapt to them) is only potential for further conflict. Maybe they don't want to be friends and maybe they don't like the way you're working. Maybe you're the odd one out in the entire team?
A solid professional relationship is a basis for a good personal relationship too and the book sadly, teaches nothing about the basics.
Nauseating and mistitled
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Challenge to Listen To
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