Have a Nice Conflict: A Story of Finding Success & Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places

by Tim Scudder

Nothing damages good relationships like bad conflict. When you choose to have a nice conflict, you're applying an approach that gets you the results you seek while leaving the relationship stronger and restoring the self-worth of everyone involved. And Have a Nice Conflict offers invaluable techniques for preventing most conflicts from even starting. The bestselling business book follows the journey of John Doyle as he fights to save his relationships and rescue his sinking career. The book and learning experience reveal practical, memorable relationship-building and conflict management techniques.

233 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2011

Reviews

[Brittany Huber · Rating 5 out of 5]

An informative book about personalities and conflict while still being a very easy and flowing read. Great for personal development and understanding how people in all aspects of your life react to conflict.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as these formulaic business parables go, this was a pretty good one. It read well and the characters were interesting, maybe because it was a study of relationships. I took SDI last year so I had a rudimentary knowledge of the inventory going in but this helped flesh out the theoretical background. I hadn't taken the session on conflict and conflict sequences before reading the book so that was really enlightening and helped me understand by own conflicts and ways of responding to conflict better. I pulled out my results from last year and they made a lot of sense. This is for the HR book club so I'm looking forward to a good discussion next week.

[Bob Schatz]

Pretty good book written as a story of how one person was coached to handle conflict in life by using a system...which is the core purpose of the book to promote an assessment/coaching tool.

I think there are better recommendations I would make for people that want to learn about preventing or managing conflict.

[Antje · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read and some interesting insights on relation- and conflict management. Reading this book has definitely sparked my interest in research Relationship Awareness some more and perhaps even do the SDI assessment.