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How to Talk to Anyone at Work: 72 Little Tricks for Big Success in Business Relationships
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How to Talk to Anyone at Work: 72 Little Tricks for Big Success in Business Relationships

by Leil Lowndes
October 2018
Beginner
368 pages
4h 45m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Wouldn’t Work Be Great If It Weren’t for the People?

When you walk into work each day, do some of your colleagues extend a warm hello or give you a quick smile? No doubt there are a few who just keep on walking, talking, working, or whatever they were doing before you came on the scene. Nevertheless, every single one of them is having an instantaneous uncontrollable reaction to you, positive, negative, or a hundred shades in between.

Likewise, you’re subconsciously reacting to each of them. The split second you sense a coworker’s presence, especially your boss’s, within 10 feet, you have a knee-jerk reaction. Maybe seeing a couple of your colleagues gives you an inner smile and spotting others invokes a yawn. And no matter where you work, ...

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