Deidre Combs

Worst Enemy, Best Teacher (eBook, ePUB)

How to Survive and Thrive with Opponents, Competitors, and the People Who Drive You Crazy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Worst Enemy, Best Teacher presents a powerful system to identify and learn how to best approach the person or problem that plagues us most - whether it's a neighbor, a brother-in-law, a new boss, or the factory's fiercest competitor - Combs breaks down problems and threats into more easily understood categories, such as conflicts that threaten physical harm, emotional pain, constriction of one's ability to be unique, and intellectual threats and how they affect one's world view and beliefs. Hands-on exercises, parables, and real-life stories show readers how to apply the wisdom gained from studying the opponent to any challenge, whether within one's self, with friends or family, or between companies or nations, Worst Enemy, Best Teacher offers ingenious tips and techniques for learning from the enemy and converting conflict into resolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781577319276
• Artikelnr.: 37928724

Autorenporträt

Dr. Deidre Combs developed The Way of Conflict through extensive research and a national workshop series. She grounds the system in twenty years of corporate experience, a decade-long mediation and coaching/consulting practice and fourteen years of parenting. She began a full-time corporate career at IBM in 1985 and soon became a project manager in IBM's Healthcare and Global Services divisions; successfully managing a variety of technical, subcontract, and marketing teams over the next seven years. In 1992, she founded Combs and Company and became a credentialed mediator. Combs and Company, Inc. provides facilitation, conflict strategies, training, and executive and team coaching services. Combs and Company's clients include IBM, SolCom Incorporated, Land Mine Survivor's Network, Montana Public School Administrators, Montana State University, Young President's Organization, American Leadership Forum, US Postal Service, and US Forest Service among its many corporate, start-up and non-profit clients. She is also a doctoral faculty member of University of Creation Spirituality, a master's degree instructor for Naropa University, and an interfaith minister. She lives with her husband and their three children in the Rocky Mountains.