Leading Organizational Evolution


January 26, 2012 By David Zinger Leave a Comment
What light through yonder window breaks? How many conflicts and high stakes conversations in Shakespeare’s plays could have been prevented or altered had Shakespeare been fluent with Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations? Let’s take a look at 5 snippets of conversation and see how they could be viewed and changed with a … [Read More...]

January 24, 2012 By CrucialSkills Leave a Comment
Dear Crucial Skills, My father-in-law is a very powerful person and I don’t feel comfortable speaking honestly about anything with him. If I ask him a question about an issue I want to resolve, he announces his opinion then cuts off any discussion by saying, “Well, that’s how life is sometimes” as he stands up to leave. I think he is … [Read More...]

January 19, 2012 By CrucialSkills Leave a Comment
Dear Crucial Skills, I read about your career-limiting habits survey and immediately realized a career-limiting habit has held me back from a promotion I’ve wanted for several years. You could say I have two of them. First, I have the one you describe as “short-term focus.” I focus on urgent tasks and let some of the long-term priorities … [Read More...]

January 17, 2012 By CrucialSkills Leave a Comment
Did you already blow your New Year’s resolution? You’re not alone. It turns out that fewer than one in twenty of us succeed at changing a longstanding habit that has kept us from advancing our career, improving a relationship, getting healthier, or becoming financially fit. Generally, our change plans fall into one of two traps: The … [Read More...]
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