The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution: Preserving Relationships at Work, at Home, and in the Community
Author: Dudley Weeks
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ISBN: 0874777518
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (Paper) (January, 1994)
Sales Rank: 9,564
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Essential Life Skills Reference Book
This book teaches the reader a process towards better conflict management. It is not a hard process to learn; its not an easy process to use all the time, though. That being said, I recommend this book HIGHLY, especially to anyone who is looking for ways to make their home life, work life, or community life more enriching.Dudley was a professor of mine in undergraduate. He's a great man, and this is a *great* book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
When you're ready for peace
When you're waaay past "Looking out for #1" or "Winning Through Intimidation," when you're more than a few miles down the road from "Getting to Yes," when strengthening and developing all of your relationships has become far more important to you than "winning" or getting your way or creatively persuading the other person to do your bidding....then perhaps you're ready for this book. That's right, when you're ready for peace, even if you're the one who'se going to have to change, here's a framework, a process. But not until you're ready.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Best for group conflict, less for individual conflict
Weeks certainly has an amazing background in conflict, and his book reflects it. I found his principles (the eight steps) to be best applied to long-term group conflicts, such as contractual disputes between companies or labor vs. management strife. The eight steps are also helpful for individual conflict, but less so.As I completed the book, I sensed a need to distinguish between the two kinds of conflict and thus devise targeted steps for individual conflict of a short-term nature.
That aside, this book is not pop-whiz-bang fluff. It is hardy stuff from an academician with bountiful real-world experience in the subject.
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