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Radical Collaboration : Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships
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Radical Collaboration : Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships

by James W. Tamm, Ronald J. Luyet
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 51m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
Content preview from Radical Collaboration : Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships

CHAPTER 18

GET REAL… 15 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO DAY TO IMPROVE YOUR ABILITY TO BE IN A RELATIONSHIP

All this Self-esteem mumbo jumbo and collaborative self-awareness stuff might be good at home, but I think it’s a bunch of BS here at work. I just expect people to get along and do their job.”

Abe, the plant manager, threw down the gauntlet right at the start of the meeting. He wasn’t a touchy-feely guy and he wasn’t impressed with what he called “California psychobabble.” It wasn’t the worst start we’ve had for a big team meeting, but it was pretty clear it was put-up-or-shut-up time for us.

So with Abe’s permission we did a little experiment with some of his employees. We asked for six volunteers and separated them into two teams. We gave each team ...

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