Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen 2000, Penguin Books The Idea The hardest conversations are typically the most important ones (and the easiest to screw up). Thankfully, three smart souls from the Harvard Negotiation project have hooked us up with this gem, a book that […]
This is an excerpt from Game Plan: Achieve Your Goals in Life, Career, and Business. Subscribe to Pregame this month and get the digital version free! Once you begin to open your possibilities and expand your vision, you’ll quickly have an epiphany: other people know how to do stuff better than you do! When I finally started
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If you own a business, you’ve probably been told that “building a community” should be high on your list of priorities. You probably think that the best way to build community is to know the best way connect with other people and do things that will get them to like you. Win friends to
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Many of us lock ourselves into one role: “I am a businessperson,” “I am a parent,” “I am a runner.” But in reality, we each have many roles in life. We are all citizens and humans. We have additional roles in our families, careers, schools, and communities. The truth is that we are happiest and
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Success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. American folklore is thick with the lone hero motif; that misunderstood visionary who follows his heart and bootstraps his way to success. Even now, the mythology endures, as if Steve Jobs built the iPhone all by himself or Martha Stewart bakes all the cakes. As much as some would like you
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Most of my clients come to me because they feel stuck. As a coach, one of the first questions I ask when working with any client is “What’s your story?” Essentially, I’m looking for clues to understand my client’s motivations and potential obstacles to achieving their goals. I’m curious as to what about their life
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Welcome to How They Did It: the podcast that gets you the real story behind the success. Host Darbi Worley interviews extraordinary people about this thing called life and how to do it better. In this podcast pregame, Darbi and Ciara talk about creating Pregame Magazine, How They Did It podcast, and how they define success in life and work.
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