Description
Start building bridges instead of barriers! This essential guide offers a simple 5-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.
Divisions are on the rise around the world, and 2024 may well be a peak year. Were losing the ability to disagree without dehumanizing. There is a deep need for this practical and accessible guide to having challenging conversations in any situation, from the workplace to the classroom to the dinner table.
Its not about saying the right words at the right time but something vastly deeper. In this book, youll discover the 5 pillars of respectfully disagreeing:
Challenge your perspective
Be the student
Cultivate your curiosity
Seek the gray
Agree to respect
But this is not a weighty tome. Each chapter features a cartoon, and Justin Jones-Fosu tackles this serious subject with a playful and compassionate tone. For example, he writes I have become more and more intentional in my desire to respectfully disagree with others (except those who think putting ketchup on eggs is wrongthere is no hope for respect there).
With a wide range of examples and exercises throughout, this is a timely and reader-friendly handbook to disagreeing with someones ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity.
Author: Justin Jones-Fosu
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781523006519
Language: English
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