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The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need to Know to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home and in Life
The Power of Positive Confrontation is for everyone who was never taught, or never realized, that between "bully" and "wimp" is a range of behavior that is positive, dignified, and effective for dealing with life's bothersome situations. The skills it teaches will not only improve your ability to confront others, but will also help you to live a more co...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 5th 2001
by Da Capo Press
(first published October 31st 1999)
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Too long and wordy by half, this book suffers from an identity crisis. On the one hand, it's so basic, especially towards the end, that I can't imagine why it was on the business shelf. On the other hand, the subject matter and presentation are clearly geared toward business. It's mostly good advice, but stuff any person with even a smidgen of self-awareness already knows. Victim-types like woe-is-me housewives will have no reason to read this book, and veteran business people will find it too b...more
Jenny Sudweeks Sudweeks
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This book was a quick read full of informative facts on how to better confront people. The book also had other pointers on how to be a better professional as well.
Lots of the information I figured would already be known to people in the working world. I guess I was wrong!
Anyway, this book and the author are pretty good.
Lots of the information I figured would already be known to people in the working world. I guess I was wrong!
Anyway, this book and the author are pretty good.
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Definitely an excellent book to learn good and effective negotiating styles from to use in everyday life. Good for learning to perrsuade and influence people!
This had good stuff in it for how to be assertive yet polite.
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