Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

“Everyone’s in-basket and out-basket are full, but I’m concerned we’re avoiding the too hard basket.”

Authenticity is a powerful attractor. When we free our true selves and release the energy, others recognize it and respond. It is as if we have set ourselves ablaze. Others are attracted to the warmth and add their logs to the fire.

How would you approach a conversation if you were a samurai?

A value is a tightly held belief (as opposed to a vague notion) upon which a person or organization acts by choice. It is an enduring belief that one way of behaving is personally, professionally, spiritually, or socially preferable to an opposing way of behaving.

Our most valuable currency is relationship. Emotional capital.

However, many work teams as well as couples have a list of undiscussables, issues they avoid broaching at all costs in order to preserve a modicum of peace, to preserve the relationship. In reality, the relationship steadily deteriorates for lack of the very conversations they so carefully avoid. It’s difficult to raise the level if the slide has l

One of the greatest gifts you can give another is the purity of your attention. Not your advice! Mineral Rights will require that you hold your ideas about what needs to be done until your partner has had an opportunity to formulate his or her own solutions.

Cardinal Newman said, “We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

you might conclude, as did Martin Amis, that “we are out there on the cutting edge of the uncontroversial.”