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When we disagree about fundamental issues, especially issues such as politics or religion, it can be incredibly difficult to maintain close interpersonal relationships. These differences have ended friendships and caused rifts in families. We need a tool to help us build more resilient relationships despite real and present differences. In Brave Talk, communications expert Melody Stanford Martin offers just such a tool: impasse. By learning to treat every conflict as if it's an impasse and temporarily suspend our desire to resolve differences, we make space....

Constant complainers take up resources, time, and mental bandwidth in the workplace. When you change a culture of complainers to one of contributors, you boost morale, increase productivity, and promote effective communication. In short, you get more done with less drama. In Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers, workplace communication expert Linda Swindling shares her expertise in negotiating tough situations in the workplace. Discover how to influence others to accomplish your purpose.  

Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves brings decades of critical analysis and experience that the authors tested worldwide in international organizations, governments, NGOs, universities, and corporations. You will understand mediation better and its significance in your personal and professional life. You will be able to develop a flexible mindset and a broad outlook to achieve sustainable outcomes.

We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr...

Dall'autore di New York Times bestsellers Patrick Lencioni! Con il suo nuovo libro "Le cinque disfunzioni del team" l'autore presenta la storia divertente e agile di una leadership. Il libro affronta uno dei problemi più diffusi e pesanti nel mondo aziendale: il funzionamento del team. La forma del libro, più adatta al suo contenuto, è quella di un romanzo breve, di struttura semplice. In maniera molto chiara e avvincente il libro racconta la storia di Kathryn Petersen, la manager ingegnosa chiamata a risolvere i problemi di un'impresa.

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadership Managing crisis well is at the very heart of good leadership. Here, the team from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on a deep well of research...

The Psychology of Conflict is a timely new contribution on the unique benefits of applying philosophy and psychology to mediating between people in conflict. Following his previous book with Dr. Freddie Strasser - Mediation: A Psychological Insight into Conflict Resolution - Paul Randolph here examines the application of existential philosophy to the psychology of conflict, particularly as seen in mediation.

The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long, and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer numbers who fail. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behavior, including: recognizing and coping with overconfident, narcissistic, and psychopathic leaders; causes of leadership derailment and failure; corrupt corporate cultures; and the criminal personality.

As a manager, you tend to walk a tightrope with executives on one side and employees on the other. But while managing personalities, team dynamics, and company culture aren't your only responsibilities, they are vital to the well-being of any company. To help you boost productivity and find the right management style for you, the staff of Entrepreneur helps you tap into the expertise of over 20 contributors and learn how to: delegate the right jobs to the right people; decentralize management and boost employee productivity; promote accountability; and much more.

A high-performing company culture can translate into happy employees, a productive and engaging work environment, and fluid communications. To help you define and create a culture that works in today's competitive world, Entrepreneur's community of small-business owners and entrepreneurs share their battle-tested strategies, hard-won advice, and secrets behind what works and what doesn't.  

With greater workplace demands comes greater stress--and it's taking a toll on our productivity and well-being. The standard recommendations are to exercise, meditate, and eat better. But who has time for yoga poses amid nonstop meetings and pressing deadlines? Stress reduction becomes one more thing to do! Executive coach and psychotherapist Aimee Bernstein offers a more effective and realistic approach: Embrace the pressure. See it as an energy source.

Working with difficult people can reduce your morale, threaten your productivity, deplete your energy, and waste your time. But you don't have to be helpless in the face of other people's craziness! Knowing how to handle coworkers' disruptive behavior is one of the most important career skills you can have, allowing you to become a more valuable employee and a more self-reliant person.

This is not soft-on-crime, feel-good philosophy, but rather a concrete effort to bring justice and healing to everyone involved in a crime. In The Little Book of Restorative Justice, Howard Zehr, the father of restorative justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice, first explores how restorative justice is different from criminal justice. Then, before letting those appealing observations drift out of reach into theoretical space, Zehr presents restorative justice practices.

Start building bridges instead of barriers! This essential guide offers a simple five-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.

Al adoptar una mentalidad que prioriza a los demás—transformando cada "¡Aquí estoy!" en un sincero "¡Ah, ahí estás!"—puedes iluminar cualquier habitación y crear conexiones profundas y significativas. El líder carismático revela la hoja de ruta de John Maxwell para un liderazgo más...

Confront what no one dares to say, but everyone feels Enterprise families rarely fall apart because of bad strategy or poor governance. What truly gets in the way are the things left unspoken: quiet resentments, competing values, and emotional undercurrents that influence decisions and...

Negotiation has always been at the heart of solving problems at work. Yet today, when people in organizations are asked to do more with less, be responsive 24/7, and manage in rapidly changing environments, negotiation is more essential than ever. What has been missed in much of the literature of the past 30 years is that negotiations in organizations always take place within a context - of organizational culture, of prior negotiations, of power relationships - that dictates which issues are negotiable and by whom.

Nada é mais inspirador do que uma grande visão que se torna uma nova e triunfante realidade. Pense em como o Empire State Building passou de um esboço a uma joia no horizonte de Nova York em 21 meses, ou como o iPod da Apple passou de um projeto com um único funcionário a um lançamento de produto em onze meses. São histórias maravilhosas. Mas na maioria das vezes as grandes visões se transformam em pesadelos. Quase todas as grandes cidades do mundo têm um fiasco do tipo no seu quintal.

Glauben Sie auch, dass andere meist mehr Macht haben als Sie? Ist Macht für Sie negativ besetzt, und möchten Sie sich am liebsten aus Konflikten raushalten, sind dann jedoch vom Ergebnis enttäuscht? Dann zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch den Weg zur Macht-Kompetenz© für mehr Erfolg in Beruf und Beziehungen. In diesem Standardwerk hat sie den Begriff Macht-Kompetenz© geprägt und vermittelt Methoden zur Durchsetzung von Zielen und zur Abwehr von Übergriffen unter Beachtung von Ethik und Verantwortung.

La menzogna svelata non è un manuale per smascherare le bugie, ma un libro per comprendere cosa accade realmente nelle relazioni professionali quando la verità fatica a emergere. Nel lavoro, nelle aziende, nella vendita e nella negoziazione, le persone raramente mentono per ingannare. Molto più spesso lo fanno per proteggersi: dal giudizio, dal conflitto, dalla perdita di ruolo o di credibilità.