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Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
avoidance of the tough issues, what psychologists call conflict-aversion, only makes things worse.
Henry Cloud • Boundaries for Leaders (Enhanced Edition): Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously In Charge
Particularly in a leadership position, it is irresponsible to avoid people with whom you have disagreements and to duck difficult situations.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Much of the energy in troubled relationships is drained through power struggles about who’s right, who’s wrong, and who’s the biggest victim.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Do you recommend mates helping each other to change? Few couples get away with helping each other to change. Here’s why: to help mates to change, you must totally accept them, as they are. Otherwise, they will resist your judgmental attitude. The inevitable result is an interesting paradox: those who have accepted their mates have low motivation to
... See moreGeorge S. Pransky • The Relationship Handbook
they disagree because they care.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Any relationship is a delicate equilibrium between dark and light, often intimately intertwined. Everything is a balance and the slightest missteps can tip the balance in one direction of the other.