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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Sheila Heen Author, Bruce Patton Author and Douglas Stone Author

There are a lot of tough conversations we need to have every day. Some of them are always going to be difficult—like a breakup or a hostage negotiation or telling your fundamentalist parents that you're gay. Then there are the everyday sort of conversations that don't have to be difficult but often are—stuff like deciding with your spouse what to have for dinner, asking the person in front of you in the movies to remove their top hat, or negotiating how often dishes get done or what kind of music to play at work. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, comes this new book aimed to help you have less stress, set better boundaries, and gain clearer communication! Talking about the hard stuff is a skill like any other, and you can absolutely learn it at any point in life, so why not start now?