How to Lose Wives and Clients
- After the events in Divan Bar that evening, I began to realize that while standards are an indispensable part of producing a product or service, they can have undesirable results when applied to relations management...
- Why do ways begin to part?... When the culture and values of the parties begin to diverge... So is it possible to foresee this change and forestall the damage?... Of course it is. If it was impossible what would be the point of writing this book...
- A species of fish that lives and travels in a shoal... One of them suddenly crashes into the corner of a razor-sharp coral reef, begins to flounder and behave differently from the others, in a way that arouses uncertainty...
- The day came when I realized I would have to pay the price for every single one of my weaknesses; for every mistake, for not taking life seriously, for a megalomaniac over-heated self-confidence...
- The balance between silence and knowing can only be achieved by listening to the other person. Then we can ask this question: How do we understand whether we have listened properly, when we are so prone to distraction?...
- Can there be love, or indeed any other relationship, without caprice?... Of course not. The most trusted client, the fondest wife, needs to be treated with attentiveness, as if they might get up and leave at any moment.
Finding an answer to this question 'Where to begin?', that is, sorting out your priorities, is at least as important as finding an answer to the question, 'What should be done?...'
Question 1: Who manages whom and how?
Question 2: What distance to keep?
Question 3: What do standards destroy?
Question 4: How far can a partnership go?
Question 5: What is the cost of uncertainty?
Question 6: How are complaint and crisis confused?
Question 7: How does a crash become unavoidable?
Question 8: What do we lose by 'not listening' and 'failing to make others listen'?
Question 9: When is there too much of a good thing?
Question 10: Is there a way out?
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- Why do ways begin to part?... When the culture and values of the parties begin to diverge... So is it possible to foresee this change and forestall the damage?... Of course it is. If it was impossible what would be the point of writing this book...
- A species of fish that lives and travels in a shoal... One of them suddenly crashes into the corner of a razor-sharp coral reef, begins to flounder and behave differently from the others, in a way that arouses uncertainty...
- The day came when I realized I would have to pay the price for every single one of my weaknesses; for every mistake, for not taking life seriously, for a megalomaniac over-heated self-confidence...
- The balance between silence and knowing can only be achieved by listening to the other person. Then we can ask this question: How do we understand whether we have listened properly, when we are so prone to distraction?...
- Can there be love, or indeed any other relationship, without caprice?... Of course not. The most trusted client, the fondest wife, needs to be treated with attentiveness, as if they might get up and leave at any moment.
Finding an answer to this question 'Where to begin?', that is, sorting out your priorities, is at least as important as finding an answer to the question, 'What should be done?...'
Question 1: Who manages whom and how?
Question 2: What distance to keep?
Question 3: What do standards destroy?
Question 4: How far can a partnership go?
Question 5: What is the cost of uncertainty?
Question 6: How are complaint and crisis confused?
Question 7: How does a crash become unavoidable?
Question 8: What do we lose by 'not listening' and 'failing to make others listen'?
Question 9: When is there too much of a good thing?
Question 10: Is there a way out?
Buy Now