
How to Work with Complicated People
Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
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Bestselling author and transformational speaker Ryan Leak shares research-based strategies for working with even the most challenging people to create more collaborative and productive teams.
Who is the most complicated person you work with?
You probably don’t have to think very hard to answer that question. You already know their name, their job title, their quirks, and their flaws. You have firsthand experience with the mental and emotional fallout they leave in their wake. You’ve seen the problems their complexity creates for everyone on their team. You wish you could fix them, solve them, ignore them, or teleport them to a parallel dimension.
But you can’t.
You have to work with them.
(You could quit, but your next job will have a complicated person waiting for you.)
That means you need effective strategies to collaborate with (nearly) anyone. Especially the picky, prickly, problematic ones.
Drawing from his global consulting experience with teams and leaders from the glitz of sports and entertainment, to the number-crunching world of finance, to the meticulous realms of insurance, pharma, and manufacturing, Ryan Leak provides proven strategies for…
- Seeing challenging individuals as human beings to understand rather than problems to solve
- Detoxing unrealistic expectations and getting comfortable with complicated
- Learning to communicate effectively in complex environments
- Embracing healthy disagreement as a tool to discover better solutions
- Setting boundaries that let people into your world without letting them run your world
“The process of learning to collaborate with difficult individuals is transformative—it’s a gateway to greater creativity, stronger teams, and increased productivity,” Leak explains. “On the other side of complicated is the wonderful, wide-open world of effective collaboration and a workplace you love.”
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By: Chris Guillebeau
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Be All You Can Be
- A Challenge to Stretch Your God-Given Potential
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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You have big dreams and major goals for your life. You want to be a leader, fulfilled and fully realized, always able to take what life throws at you and stretch beyond the status quo. But for some reason, you never quite get there. You just aren't living up to your potential, and you don't know why. Now America's leadership expert John Maxwell gives you the tools you need to Be All You Can Be. In this powerful book filled with easy-to-grasp truths you can put to work right away, you'll discover the principles of success that can really help you succeed.
By: John C. Maxwell
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MicroSkills
- Small Actions, Big Impact
- By: Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss
- Narrated by: Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills. As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier. MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible.
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Game changer
- By Carrie on 04-17-24
By: Adaira Landry, and others
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High Road Leadership
- Bringing People Together in a World That Divides
- By: John Maxwell
- Narrated by: John Maxwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In his trademark communication style, Maxwell teaches the principles and practices of high-road leadership that can increase anyone’s influence and help them make their world a better place.
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Genuine wisdom for TODAY’S times…
- By Kindle Customer on 08-15-24
By: John Maxwell
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Amplify Your Influence
- Transform How You Communicate and Lead
- By: Rene Rodriguez
- Narrated by: Rene Rodriguez
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Celebrated keynote speaker, trainer, and leadership coach Rene Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve listeners' communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills. Based in the author's proprietary AMPLIFII system and methodologies he has taught to over 100,000 participants around the world, the book offers practical tips, useful frameworks, guided practice, and simple application exercises to help listeners create new and lasting behaviors that effect change in their life and work.
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One tik tok and i got your book
- By Casaundra on 02-16-23
By: Rene Rodriguez
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Conquering Crisis
- Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them
- By: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrated by: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Throughout his 40-year career, Admiral McRaven has experienced every manner of calamity imaginable. From managing failed hostage rescues to responding to student unrest, McRaven has learned how to successfully navigate crises—those moments that push the limits of your experience and challenge your confidence, when leadership skills alone may not be enough.
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Bravo Admiral
- By Empress Karen on 04-23-25
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The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication
- Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message
- By: John Maxwell
- Narrated by: John Maxwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than fifty years. He is one of only eight people on the planet who have been awarded Toastmaster’s Golden Gavel and been inducted into the National Speakers' Association Hall of Fame. In The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication.
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Another Maxwell classic!
- By Gibril S. Mansaray on 05-08-23
By: John Maxwell
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When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy
- A Practical, No-BS Guide to Successful Online Entrepreneurship
- By: Sam Vander Wielen
- Narrated by: Sam Vander Wielen
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Entrepreneurship can be deeply rewarding, but not at the cost of your own self-care and well-being. When I Start My Business, I'll Be Happy teaches listeners that even when life doesn’t go smoothly as a business owner, you can still build and grow your own business—those bumps in the road will in fact make your business even stronger.
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Like a business coach with coffee daily!
- By Lorian on 05-28-25
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How to Fall in Love with Questions
- A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
- By: Elizabeth Weingarten
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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What if our questions—the ones we ask about relationships, work, meaning, identity, and purpose—are not our tormentors, but our teachers? Inspired by 150-year-old advice from Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and backed by contemporary science, Elizabeth Weingarten offers a fresh approach for dealing with these seemingly unsolvable questions. In her quest, Weingarten shares her own journey and the stories of many others, whose lives have transformed through a different, and better, relationship with uncertainty.
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too much personal anecdote
- By Landsurveyor on 07-01-25
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Queer as Folklore
- The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
- By: Sacha Coward
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies, and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows, found kinship in the in-between, and created safe spaces in underworlds; but these forgotten narratives tell stories of remarkable resilience that deserve to be heard.
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I had never thought about how many queer people there must have been in history and this book really opened my eyes
- By Brandielle on 05-23-25
By: Sacha Coward
I’m complicated
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I can handle complicated people
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To take a look at ourselves and then work with others.
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So practical and much needed in our world!
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The flow of the book was story and also action
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Adjusting Yourself
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This is a book for everyone.
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Fantastic!
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The final chapter was my most needed
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Not what I expected
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