Fierce Conversations: Achieving success in work and in life, one conversation at a time

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Invite your partner to respond – encourage the other person to join in fierce conversation you by inviting them to voice their thoughts and emotions on the issue. Gabe loves the outdoors and enjoys surfing, biking, and snowboarding, and especially hiking with his wife. Scott’s workbook exercises will allow readers to have effective, life-changing fierce conversations of their own. However, I did get a couple of gems out of it here and there, so I would recommend it to those who are interested in taking a deeper look at their communication patterns and methods. The limbic brain, however, does not have the capacity for language, so most of the time when we do or don’t do something we can’t really explain our reasons and resort to „it’s just a gut feeling”.

A little touchy feely, easier said than done (on the honesty part, anyway), but it did give me some good ideas for asking the right questions. Inviting other people to express their reality and then laying blame on them will give the impression that we didn’t really want to consider how things are in their eyes or how they interpreted things; and usually activates our defense mechanisms. Some content got moved to different chapters and there’s a few cyber-era paragraphs but it’s largely the same book. This may be a good first step if you’ve never done any self-improvement, but if you’ve spent any time on your spiritual or emotional growth, this feels like a step back.Susan Scott is a best-selling author and leadership development architect, who currently runs her own company – Fierce, Inc. Make a proposal – make it a point to tell the other person that you value the other person’s view and ask them to engage in fierce conversation. This book is incredibly hard to summarize because the author gives several types of conversations, considerations before the conversation, and points to consider after the conversations. She believes that interpersonal difficulties are a direct result of our inability to communicate well. Geeta Premkrishnan brings in over 15 years of experience to Fierce, in technology and data analytics with progressively increasing leadership responsibility from Technology Professional through Vice President.

Another example: a strict boss, people talk behind his back and think their suggestions won’t be heeded.Beltran is an avid road bike cyclist logging 120+ miles a week year-round as his primary source for sustained mental, physical and spiritual balance.

It’s the art (or skill) of being in the moment and dealing with it as it happens instead of wondering what could have gone differently in the past or projecting what the future will look like. Focus on being Fierce – Don’t focus on being the boss; focus on the relationship between you and your employees. But I typed out a summary (which is very long because there aren't ways to simplify her points) so I can refer to this in the future. Fully revised and updated—the national bestselling communication skills guide that will help you achieve personal and professional success one conversation at a time.This book was not as easy a read for me as “Switch” was; I really had to make myself read and finish this book. Our emotional wake is the aftermath of what we’ve said during or after the conversation and how it’s affected the other person we are having a conversation with. The most important thing about interrogating reality while engaging in fierce conversation is to avoid laying blame. Be Prepared to be Nowhere Else – When we devote our attention to nothing else than the words being spoken, and the person speaking them, we acknowledge the importance of what they have to offer and their existence. I realized I needed help to not only have the right conversations, but to develop the tools to have them effectively.