Best Conflict Management Book

Question.

My boss has just declined my request to go on a conflict management course but says he will pay for a few books on the topic. Can you recommend any?

Are there any downloadable books? For me they’re better than hard copy.

Do you think management books are the best way for me to learn management? Are there any downsides to a management book?

Answer

One conflict management book we like is:

Tongue Fu! – By Sam Horn.

We’re not alone either. Jack Canfield who’s positive thinking methods we also like says that he thinks this is a "handbook for verbal self-defence that provides dozens of real-life, constructive alternatives to giving a tongue lashing or to being tongue-tied". (Jack Canfield is also author of the Chicken Soup books).

We like also like:

Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboration – By Stewart Levine

It’s a tool-set for resolving all conflicts – personal conflicts – marriage, neighbors etc -and also business conflicts including the pain and anger from layoffs. They are some of the conflicts he discusses.

I’m not sure if you can get them downloadable but an internet search would tell you.

I know how you feel. It’s great to just decide you need/want a book and be reading it less than 10 minutes later. It doesn’t get better than that.

Nothing beats practical experience in management. What books give you is the ideas and techniques but it takes an author who has done the job themselves to write great information which is practical, real, true to life and applicable to the work a manager does today.

What’s not good about books?

Well…not much except…you can’t ask a book a question!

You can’t say “Hey that’s great Mr Drucker/ Peters/Walsh. How would you apply that to my work situation where ……..?”

Have you checked out  Elizabeth’s  Best Management Books yet?

You get instantly downloadable eBooks – “real-life”, practical, focused and written in a “how to” style by a manager with excellent qualifications and 20 years practical experience – you read and feel experience in every word.