Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life

An award-winningconflict consultant offers a new path to take when agreement and collaborationseem impossible, and teaches us that when conflict resolution fails, we canachieve freedom instead--even without others' cooperation.A founding CEO and his top salesperson are engaged in aheated clash over her compensation package.A mother and daughter are locked in a nasty cycle of blameand attack.A high-profile executive team is struggling with aggressivepolitical infighting.In all these cases, every effort to talk it out has beenunsuccessful.Where can you turn when your attempts to resolve conflictfail? Most approaches emphasize collaboration. You are supposed to sit down, calmly talk through your differences, and find a solution. But what if nothingseems to work, no matter what you do?When situations resist resolution, the Optimal Outcomes Method teaches us conflict freedom.This innovative method, based on Dr. JenniferGoldman-Wetzler's training at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, two decades as a consultant to Fortune 500 and high-growth CEOs and seniorteams, grassroots work with Middle East leaders, US government-funded researchon terrorism, and her popular course at Columbia University, Optimal Outcomes reveals eight groundbreaking practicesproven to help people everywhere free themselves from conflict.With inspiringstories from clients, students, and Dr. Goldman-Wetzler's own life lighting theway, you'll learn to observe complex situations with clarity, access your shadow values (things you really careabout but have been unwilling to admit), and take bold, simple, surprisingaction. Optimal Outcomes blends mindfulness, Jungian psychology, and practical, step-by-step advice to free anyone from seemingly impossible conflict. Applyingthe practices, you'll reach your Optimal Outcome--which may be vastly differentfrom what you originally imagined, but more satisfying than you ever dreamedpossible.

Author:

Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler PhD

Publisher:

Harper Business

Publication Date:

February 25, 2020

Number of pages:

240 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Hardcover

ISBN-10:

0062893653

ISBN-13:

9780062893659