Book · 1999 · Interpersonal communication
Difficult Conversations
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And and then of course Difficult Conversations, I think provides very flexible framework and approach for engaging with many many different situations, many different people, many different challenges.
Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2021 Listen at 33:32 The best things said about it
I'm planning on reading difficult conversations and radical candor so that i can better communicate with them.
Why people recommend it
Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen is a comprehensive guide to navigating challenging and high-stakes personal and professional dialogues. The book provides a practical framework designed to help individuals approach difficult situations, resolve conflicts, and communicate more effectively with various people and challenges. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Tim Ferriss recommended Difficult Conversations, stating that it offers a very flexible framework and approach for engaging in many different difficult scenarios. Ferriss later listed the book again in his closing remarks alongside Thanks for the Feedback. Similarly, on The Jordan Harbinger Show, a listener shared that they were planning to read Difficult Conversations and Radical Candor to improve their communication with senior staff members. Later, on an episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, Ferriss brought up the third edition of Difficult Conversations to ask author Sheila Heen about reader feedback and the specific revisions made to an example in the book that elicited large public reactions, highlighting the ongoing evolution of its core principles.
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Tim Ferriss And and then of course Difficult Conversations, I think provides very flexible framework and approach for e… 3
“I came into this expecting that I would be opening the kimono per se, but you just finished the third edition of Difficult Conversations, and you had to contend with some reader feedback on an example in that book that got large reactions.”
“And and then of course Difficult Conversations, I think provides very flexible framework and approach for engaging with many many different situations, many different people, many different challenges.”
“Difficult Conversations is the book that has come up many times in this conversation, how to discuss what matters most. And then the book that we spent a little bit of time kind of poking at from these oblique angles, Thanks for the Feedback, The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback”
Jordan Harbinger I'm planning on reading difficult conversations and radical candor so that i can better communicate with them 1
“I'm planning on reading difficult conversations and radical candor so that i can better communicate with them”
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“and Difficult Conversations, subtitle, How to Discuss What Matters Most. Also with Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton, with a newly updated third edition that was just released in August.”
“Sheila is co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Difficult Conversations, subtitle How to Discuss What Matters Most, and Thanks for the Feedback”
“And um I think I really see in that paper a few of the germs of what later became the book Difficult Conversations.”
“So, when we first started working on the book, uh Bruce and Doug and I that became Difficult Conversations, the working title was actually The 10 Hardest Things to Say and How to Say Them.”
“Um and by the way, we're we're reworking difficult conversations now like as we speak. Um we're doing a third edition.”
“i'm planning on reading difficult conversations and radical candor so that i can better communicate with them”