| Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life Once Conversation at a Time | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Susan Scott |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Berkley Trade Publishing Group |
| Publication date | 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 0-42-519337-3 |
| LC Classification | BJ2121 .S42 2002 |
| Followed by | Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today |
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time (ISBN 0-42-519337-3) is the first book written by Susan Scott. Fierce Conversations is a guide to tackling your toughest challenges and enriching relationships with everyone important to your success and happiness through principles, tools, and assignments designed to direct you through your first fierce conversations with yourself on to the most challenging and important conversations facing you[1]. The book was published by Viking in 2002 (hardcover version) and then by the Berkley Publishing Group in 2004 (paperback version). It has since become a Wall Street Journal and UPI bestseller.
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Susan defines fierce conversation as “One in which we come out from behind ourselves, into the conversation and make it real.”[2] She believes that interpersonal difficulties--at work and at home--are a direct result of our inability to communicate well.[2]
For 13 years, Susan ran think tanks for CEOs and designed and delivered training to peers working with CEOs in 18 countries. While having one-to-one conversations with industry leaders, as well as workshops with men and women from all walks of life, confronting issues of relationship and life direction, Susan has determined that our work, our relationships, and, in fact, our very lives succeed or fail gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time. [1]