Everyone has to deal with difficult situations while interacting with people whether it be a difficult customer, a overzealous boss, or a conflict with a coworker. It is necessary to be able to deal with these types of situations with out losing your temper or making your work-life much more difficult and much less productive. Crucial Conversations is the perfect tool for anyone who has to deal with customers or coworkers for any amount of time. It gives you the basic tools to be able to manage maintaining your composure in difficult situations.

The advice in Crucial Conversations was given in an extremely engaging manner. The language was very conversational. I did not feel as if I was being preached or talked down to while reading this book as I think some self-help and instructional books have the tendency to do. The examples and stories illustrated their points sufficiently and in an engaging way. The stories also did not overwhelm. I sometimes find that there are too many and they overpower the message of the book. That was not the case with this one. The exercises were also very helpful and illustrated the points very well.

Crucial Conversations did have one minor flaw. I did find that sometimes the language became a bit cliché. It was not overly obvious and I feel that most self-help books fall victim to it.

I would recommend Crucial Conversations to anyone who works with people…simple as that because it’s inevitable that a situation will arise where the tactics in this book will be extremely useful. ( )

Highly recommended. W- and I have both read this, and it makes those tough conversations go so smoothly! =D ( )

Best book I've read on communications (and I've read many). Important information and skills that could save relationships, jobs, maybe the world! ( )

This is a seminal book with concepts that should be taught in schools, churches, and every workplace. Lives will be changed when these principles are consistently practiced. ( )

crucial conversations is an eye and soul opener. I am responsible for my own understanding and misunderstanding. Certain controllable behaviors build the wall and walls between and that hold me inside. Through becoming more sentient, true dialogue becomes possible.

“Nothing gives on person so much advantage as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson