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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition Paperback – Oct. 21 2021
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The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.
This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to:
- Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you
- Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it
- Communicate more effectively across digital mediums
Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.
- ISBN-101260474186
- ISBN-13978-1260474183
- Edition3rd
- PublisherMcGraw Hill
- Publication dateOct. 21 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- Print length304 pages
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From the Publisher
Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler and Emily Gregory are international corporate consultants and leaders at Crucial Learning, a learning company that offers courses in the areas of communication, leadership and performance. Nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 have used their courses to improve organizational health and performance.
About the Author
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory are international corporate consultants and leaders of VitalSmarts, a Top 20 Leadership Training Company. Together they have developed award-winning training programs used by hundreds of Fortune 500 companies.
Product details
- Publisher : McGraw Hill; 3rd edition (Oct. 21 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1260474186
- ISBN-13 : 978-1260474183
- Item weight : 356 g
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Training
- #1 in Business Communication Textbooks
- #1 in Business Training (Books)
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About the authors
Joseph Grenny: The Social Scientist for Business Performance
Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for business performance. For thirty years, Joseph has delivered engaging keynotes at major conferences including the HSM World Business Forum at Radio City Music Hall. Joseph’s work has been translated into 28 languages, is available in 36 countries, and has generated results for 300 of the Fortune 500 and nearly half of the Forbes 1000.
Dynamic Keynote Speaker
Joseph has shared the stage with Jack Welch, Colin Powell, Jim Collins, Daniel Pink, Patrick Lencioni, and Brene Brown at some of the world’s premier leadership conferences and organizations including:
• HSM World Business Forum
• Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit
• American Society of Training and Development
• NASA
• American Bankers Association
Bestselling Author
Joseph is the coauthor of four immediate New York Times bestsellers with more than six million copies in print: Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence (formerly published as Influencer), Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything.
He has contributed regularly to BusinessWeek and Forbes; appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox Business News; and been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.
Business Social Scientist
For the past thirty years, Joseph has conducted social science research to help leaders and organizations achieve new levels of performance. Specifically, he has focused on human behavior—the underlying written and unwritten rules that shape what employees do every day.
A protégé of Albert Bandura, Joseph’s internationally published research led to the development of his four books and four award-winning courses of the same titles. These tools have helped more than one million people and 300 of the Fortune 500 companies change human behavior.
Joseph was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his work in founding corporate training and leadership development company VitalSmarts, which has been ranked nine times by Inc. as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
www.josephgrenny.com
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Unfortunately, it is poorly organized, drown in 'examples' and fake 'case studies' and containing a disproportionately low amount of 'why' behind the 'how'.
It is also unclear whom this book is for. More analytical people don't need the ample, repetitive and sometimes boring 'examples' - they just need a good, logical exposure of the principals with a minimal examples used as illustration.
More intuitive people might derive something from the 'examples' but still that sort of content may benefit for a bit of organization - for example, distinguishing more clearly the 'methods' from the 'examples'.
The instructive value of the book is surprisingly low. The reader still have to put significant effort to extract what is useful and applicable after closing a chapter. There are 'summaries' but they extremely dry and succint after an exhausting amount of irrelevant detail that their power is seriously diminished.
In short, the book could be reduced by 60% and lose nothing of its appeal - on the contrary.

It is very helpful, insightful and informative. The authors use a lot of examples and case studies. Including online content and video clips. Lots of the material are on YouTube.
Had to read it for my business course and I'm already utilising the tools.
The book is an easy read, not complicated. It could be deemed as information dense (especially with the optional bonus content), but it will keep you engaged.
By the end of the read, I guarantee, you will be able to face conversations, you would have otherwise avoided. You'll feel more equipped to execute them properly.

