How to Work with (Almost) Anyone: Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships [Paperback]

Your happiness and your success depend on your working relationships

The people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients.

But the hard truth is this: most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance.

We say Hi, exchange pleasantries & and hope for the best.

But every relationship becomes suboptimal at some point, whether its a good one that goes off the rails or one that was poor from the start.

Mostly we are resigned to the fact that this is what happens: relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse.Cest la vie, cest la guerre. Carry on.

But it doesnt have to be like this.

Every working relationship can be better.

This book shows you how to build the best possible relationship.

One conversation. Five questions. Detailed guidance on how to prepare and set the relationship up for success. Key insights on how to maintain the relationship so that it will continue to thrive.

Michael Bungay Stanierhas a gift for distilling big, complex ideas into practical, accessible knowledge for everyday people that helps them be a force for good.

His books have sold over a million copies, withThe Coaching Habittopping the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. MBS has been featured on the blogs and social media platforms of thought leaders including Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Bren? Brown, and has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBC, Ted.com, and innumerable podcastsas well as in notable publications including theHarvard Business Review,Forbes, Inc., andFast Company.

MBS is the founder of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company, that helps organizations move from advice-driven action to curiosity-led transformation. They have trained more than half a million people for cliel“%