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Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships
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Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships

by Andrew Sobel, Jerold Panas
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 15m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships

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The Missing Ingredient

We're going to tell you about 26 irrefutable laws that will help you build power relationships. These are professional and personal relationships characterized by trust, loyalty, respect, and generosity. They enable you to thrive in your career and give you deep personal fulfillment.

Our power laws apply without exception. They pass the tests of experience and common sense. You ignore them at your own peril.

We developed these laws based on extensive research. We have conducted thousands of interviews with senior executives and other personal contacts about the ingredients of enduring professional relationships. We've held endless conversations with high-achieving individuals in business and in the nonprofit sector. The laws we describe in these chapters have been percolating through the more than 25 books that we've written over the last 30 years.

These laws will enable you to engage with others in a way you never thought possible. Create lasting friendships. Win at work and in your profession. Connect as never before.

Study the laws. Leverage them. Follow them. You'll get powerful results.

Let us introduce you to the First Relationship Law. The story is about our friend Bill Jenkins. One day he got a wake-up call that changed his life.

Bill is a partner at a prestigious professional firm. He's bright and personable and holds two science degrees from top universities. In the past, he had so-so relationships with his clients. Mostly mediocre, he tells ...

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