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Crucial Conversations (Third Edition)

By: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory
Narrated by: Emily Gregory, Joseph Grenny
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Summary

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You'll learn how to: respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you; identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it; and communicate more effectively across digital mediums.

When stakes are high and emotions run strong, you have three choices: avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

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Useful tools for interacting with people effectively.

It is very informative with some interesting insights to effectively engaging in crucial conversations. I felt it was quite long winded, and the key techniques could have been linked together earlier in the book instead of stage by stage. The book should have covered all the critical conversation steps in half the book. The second half of the book could have featured case studies, mock scenarios and accounts from attendees of the program. This would have been a more effective way of reinforcing the key observations, strategies and skills outlined in the first part of the book. This repetition of ideas structured this way would have been a more efficient way to demonstrate the excellent guidance of this book. I felt it was very good book nevertheless , and certainly have learned from it.

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Helpful book

I enjoyed listening to this on my way to work. Made me realise few things and I feel like it was very helpful

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very interesting

I enjoyed listening to this audiobook it's very interesting because it . meet me understand a lot of things about people and why they were always disagreeing

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Very glad I read this.

This book was recommended to me and I’m very glad I followed up. It details very practical tools that will help you structure your conversations and keep them on track (I.e. to help you remain in dialog). Should be required reading by everybody (including, ironically, some of the negative reviewers who appear not to have engaged with the messages in this book - if they had they wouldn’t have been so offended by what it had to say)!

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This book changed my life

This booked changed my life. I’ll try to read it every year. It’s a must purchase.
I’d been waiting for it to become available on audible for years!
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One of the best books I’ve ever encountered

Where has this book been all of my life…
Romantic relationships, work relationships, friendships - these will all benefit so, so greatly from this book. Get it.

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I reged for picking this book

I reged for picking this book . is it possible to exchange for other book?

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I want the refund

Terrible terrible headache but not good enough for the rest of the people please avoid

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New age touchy feely

Waste of time too washy and most don’t work in the real world

Of course with it being a new version all the managers are women, apart from the Pervy bosses that are all men. And of course lots of racism examples (such as people that can’t pronounce a foreign name)

Sad to see this left wing ism(don’t know what else to call it) making its way into what people are consuming passed off as ‘expert knowledge’

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