Connect Av David L. Bradford, Carole Robin

<b>''A practical and timely book'' - </b>Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global<br><br><b>''Valuable for everyone''</b> - Julia Samuel, bestselling author<br><br><b>Biting your tongue?</b><br><b><br>Bottling it all up?</b><br><b><br>From marriage to management challenges, learn how to change your relationships from exasperating to exceptional with this expert guide. </b><br><br> The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections, or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer to others. When we find ourselves in an exceptional relationship -- the kind of relationship where we feel fully understood and supported for who we are -- it can seem like magic. But the truth is that the process of building and sustaining these relationships can be described, learned, and applied.<br><br>David

'A practical and timely book I highly recommend' Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global'Connect offers a compelling and highly accessible roadmap for building relationships that lead to professional success and personal fulfilment. I highly recommend this book' Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author of Blitzscaling and The Alliance'I encourage anyone who cares to develop stronger and more meaningful relationships anywhere in their life to read this book' David Rogier, Founder and CEO at MasterClass David Bradford and Carole Robin taught interpersonal skills to MBA candidates for a combined seventy-five years on their legendary Stanford Graduate School of Business course, "Interpersonal Dynamics". Now, in Connect, they share their time-tested strategies for developing the interpersonal skills that have become fundamental to success at work and in our everyday lives, such as building trust, giving feedback and navigating conflict.Connect shows why relationship-building is crucial to becoming a more effective manager and leader and living a fulfilled life, from highlighting the importance of curiosity and empathy to demonstrating how to break logjams and negotiate boundaries. Filled with research-backed insights, useful concepts and thought-provoking exercises, Connect is an important resource for anyone hoping to build and sustain relationships, providing tools to make relationships robust -- and even exceptional. WHAT FORMER STUDENTS SAID ABOUT INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS:'I can't believe how much I learned about myself and about how others see the world''This course changed my life; it was transformational''I feel so much better equipped to create the kinds of relationships I want in my life'