Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

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Grenny, Joseph ; Patterson, Kerry ; McMillan, Ron ; Switzler, Al ; Gregory, Emily The 5 MILLION+ bestseller that revolutionized business communications—updated for today’s workplac e Crucial Conversations gives managers and leaders the skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results they want. It teaches readers 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.The skills needed for communication in the workplace are ever changing, and this new edition addresses the crucial conversations leaders face today—including how to disagree with a boss and keep your job, how to say no without making enemies, and how to handle conversations involving issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion, and much more. More than 5 million copies sold A New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Wall Street Journal bestseller The authors will promote this new edition through their company, VitalSmarts, which serves some of today’s biggest, most influential companies, including Facebook, Boeing, Cisco, ConocoPhillips, Johnson & Johnson, Federal Aviation Administration, Lockheed Martin, Papa John’s Pizza, Toyota, Mayo Clinic, Google, and Sprint Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory are international corporate consultants and leaders of VitalSmarts, a Top 20 Leadership Training Company. Together they have developed award-winning training programs used by hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. Show more