Difficult Conversations
How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone
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Recommended by 7 notable people, including Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Ryan Hoover
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Conflict Resolution, Effective Communication, and Communication.
Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or childrearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid difficult conversation every day. Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conve...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Conflict Resolution, Effective Communication, and Communication.
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Consider Influence by Robert Cialdini. Recommended by 16 sources.
“This is a book that pulls apart the psychological shortcuts we use to make decisions, then shows how to deploy them in business contexts. The writing is clear and heavy on real-world examples from sales and marketing, which makes the principles stick but can leave you feeling like you’ve just taken a master class in manipulation. Its useful part is giving a language for the invisible forces that shape everyday choices. The main limitation: it can feel overly tactical, as if relationships are just a series of triggers to be pulled, offering little on building genuine influence through trust.”
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