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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.
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Fierce Conversations:
You must extend to others what you want to receive. It begins with you.
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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.
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Fierce Conversations:
E-mail, as wonderful as it is, creates a huge opportunity for others to put a negative spin on our words.
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Fierce Conversations:
No matter how much sugar someone sprinkles throughout a loaded message, we read the underlying intent to do harm loud and clear.
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Fierce Conversations:
The most powerful communication technology available to any of us is eye contact.
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Fierce Conversations:
Unfortunately, for most of us, the instant our buttons are pushed, all our hard-won skills fly straight out the window.
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Fierce Conversations:
Unfortunately, what many people do with anger is bite their tongues.
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Fierce Conversations:
…it’s human to be angry, and it’s okay to tell someone what you’re feeling.
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