From Publishers Weekly
A business consultant and coach, Hunter has spent 12 years teaching corporations that success at work, just like success at home, depends upon the strength of personal relationships and the ability to communicate needs. In this jocular, anecdote-filled book, he translates those principles into a practical and common sense guide to improving relationships with co-workers and reducing workplace stress. The first chapters-in which Hunter elaborates on "The Power of Paradigms" and "The Components of Knowledge"-are poorly organized and tendentious, but the quality of the book improves once the author moves on to more concrete topics. Among his advice are suggestions to look for the "gold" in every person, to embrace a positive outlook and to listen without judging. He also confronts one of the biggest drains on company morale-gossip-and gives a step-by-step plan for overcoming past conflicts so that an organization can foster a new, congenial environment. While Hunter's book focuses more on the results of his workshops than it does on how readers can apply his advice themselves, some readers may appreciate the down-to-earth, no-nonsense way in which he explains how they can improve their way of relating to their co-workers and to the world at large.
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About the Author
For more than 17 years, Scott Hunter has been the go-to expert for hundreds of companies committed to creating relationships that will take them wherever they want to go. He inspires individuals, transforms organizations, and achieves bottom-line results for his clients. Business leaders turn to Scott when they are looking for breakthroughs in enthusiasm, productivity, and profitability.
A graduate of The City University of New York and The George Washington University School of Law, Scott has been an entrepreneur and business owner for over 35 years. He was also an adjunct professor at Western State University College of Law, where he taught courses on the principles of business and personal success.
Since the late 1970's, Scott has been researching what it takes for people to produce extraordinary results in their personal lives and careers. Through his studies, Scott realized that relationship is the key to accomplishment and just about everything else a person wants in life. Until people know how to create meaningful, quality relationships, they cannot fully achieve their goals, including their business goals.
This insight led Scott to apply what he learned about relationships to his work in the business arena. In the last 12 years, Scott has conducted over 75 corporate retreats for groups as small as 2 and as large as 44, consistently producing breakthroughs in the participants' relationships with each other. This has predictably produced dramatic shifts in the company's level of accomplishment.
As a consultant and coach, he has worked with over 150 corporate clients in working arrangements lasting just a weekend to as long as 10 years. As a speaker, Scott has delivered over 1000 speeches. He delivers his customized presentations with poignant stories and anecdotes that allow participants to clearly see themselves in his message. He has the uncanny ability to cut to the chase, uncover the truth, and leave people in action, in their lives and in their businesses.
