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Fierce Conversations:
When we get squeezed – when things aren’t going well for us – what comes out of us? Whatever’s inside us.
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Fierce Conversations:
Each conversation we have with our coworkers, customers, significant others, and children either enhances those relationships, flatlines them, or takes them down.
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Fierce Conversations:
In its simplest form, a fierce conversation is one in which we come out from behind ourselves into the conversation and make it real.
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Fierce Conversations:
No plan survives its collision with reality.
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Fierce Conversations:
The traditional practice of annual strategic planning sessions is a thing of the past.
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Fierce Conversations:
…Let’s face it. The world will not be managed. Life is curly. Don’t try to straighten it.
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Fierce Conversations:
Most people want to hear the truth, even if it is unpalatable.
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Fierce Conversations:
Companies and marriages derail because people don’t say what they are really thinking.
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Fierce Conversations:
…relationships and organizations are simplified, energized, and clarified when they exist in an atmosphere of truth.
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Fierce Conversations:
…if we dig in our heels regarding a familiar or favored reality, we may fail.
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