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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, David Maxfield
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
5h 55m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
Content preview from Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

9The 12 “Yeah-Buts”How to Deal with the Truly Tough

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

—CHARLES OSGOOD

As we’ve trained this material over the last two decades, we’ve grown accustomed to people saying, “Yeah, but my situation is really tough. These skills will never work for me.” At first we thought those people were being belligerent (particularly when they threw in words like bonehead and hayseed), but in most cases the concerned participants were only trying to imagine how the skills applied to their world—their toughest world. If the skills could help with their worst-case scenarios, they stood to gain a lot. All they really wanted to do was dive deeper into areas that deserved careful ...

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