FIERCE CONVERSATIONS A way of conducting business. An attitude. A way of life. Susan Scott trains clients in the art of fierce conversations, empowering them to achieve exceptional results through transforming dialogue. Success hinges on engaging people in ways that interrogate reality, provoke learning, tackle tough challenges, tap our deepest aspirations, and enrich relationships. Fierce Conversations takes you step-by-step through your first fierce co… More >>
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time
What a piece of destructive, corporate wanna-bees version of the world! This is an epic work worshiping the god /dess of mediocrity. “How dare you present things that shake the paradigm?” If you do, we need to have a “fierce conversation” regarding how you have upset our “etched in-stone” methods of business. You need to play the rules or out you go. I just suffered the humiliation of this as the background text to an “invigorating, uplifting” “retreat” in the field of education. I thought there was real progress moving forward with the “Appreciative Inquiry” movement, but I see that this trash, now the embraced holy text, is the backlash to that. Welcome to the cultural stage of fixed roles and top down directives where solutions are tromped into dust.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book with the hope that I would find something new in “Fierce” but instead found the same old clichés that have been around for a long long time. The author uses quotes for other literary people in an attempt to provide credibility for ideas that have been around the block before and frankly have been better presented by others. This book is a complete disappointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book because it was used as a text in my MBA class for Maximizing Team Performance. Decent book, fairly easy to read.
Rating: 4 / 5
Susan has presented the information in a very interesting manner and the material has depth. It helped me a lot.
Rating: 5 / 5
The information and the examples in the book are easily applied and really do make a difference. I used the book as a reference working with first line managers; it is especially useful to them in confronting passive aggressive communication styles.
Rating: 5 / 5