Holly Weeks

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series): A book review by Bob Morris

January 9, 2019

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2018) “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  Eleanor Roosevelt HBR Press has a new series of anthologies (nine volumes thus far)…

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Don’t Make Your Stressed-Out Colleague More Stressed Out

January 31, 2017

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When we see a coworker at their limit, we want…

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Holly Weeks: A second interview, by Bob Morris

November 27, 2012

Holly Weeks publishes, teaches, and consults on communications issues. She is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy teaching the Arts of Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her book Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them (Harvard Business Publishing, 2008) emphasizes handling…

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Talk, Inc.: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2012

Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why organizational conversation can – and should – be a new source of organizational power The results…

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Harvard Business Review on Communicating Effectively: A book review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Communicating Effectively Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to customize the delivery of your presentation to almost any audience for “maximum persuasive power” Those who aspire to master several different high-impact communication styles will…

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3 Tips for Surviving Difficult Conversations

April 29, 2011

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. No one is immune to workplace tensions: It is inevitable that you…

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Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes

March 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Green for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily…

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