Book Titles

Fierce Conversations
Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

By Susan Scott

Year Published: 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0670031245
Categories: Success

127 Quotes Found

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Fierce Conversations:

In the business world, confrontation, criticism, and even anger are more socially acceptable than expressions of appreciation.

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Fierce Conversations:

We’d all like to be understood, yet very few feel understood.

196

Fierce Conversations:

You must extend to others what you want to receive. It begins with you.

197

Fierce Conversations:

Very few hearts are rejected. It is the armor that seals us off from one another that causes us to move so awkwardly through life.

198

Fierce Conversations:

E-mail, as wonderful as it is, creates a huge opportunity for others to put a negative spin on our words.

198

Fierce Conversations:

No matter how much sugar someone sprinkles throughout a loaded message, we read the underlying intent to do harm loud and clear.

199

Fierce Conversations:

The most powerful communication technology available to any of us is eye contact.

199

Fierce Conversations:

Unfortunately, for most of us, the instant our buttons are pushed, all our hard-won skills fly straight out the window.

202

Fierce Conversations:

Unfortunately, what many people do with anger is bite their tongues.

206

Fierce Conversations:

…it’s human to be angry, and it’s okay to tell someone what you’re feeling.

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