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The Triangle of Truth: The Surprisingly Simple Secret to Resolving Conflicts Largeand Small

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Here's a book for anyone who has ever argued with a colleague, bickered with a boss or tried to negotiate a business deal with an important client. Lisa Earle McLeod takes readers on a journey through her life and into the lives of prominent figures to introduce the seemingly simple concept of "The Triangle of Truth," a problem-solving technique based on seven basic principles. The Triangle solution seems both intuitive and potentially transformative, if not always easy to achieve. While a straightforward read, the book is a bit repetitive and often too touchy-feely for the business world. Still, it is optimistic, straightforward, illuminating and full of useful tips, including references to related websites. getAbstract suggests this book to any open-minded business leader or manager interested in solving problems and making peace.

I manage a large WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program in the Atlanta Area. We have a motivated work force who are constantly trying to improve our attitudes towards each other and with our clients. This book offers tools for both. After reading the book, I chose to purchase 18 copes for our supervisory staff's reading group. We read a book and determine how we can utilize the information and tools with our staff and each other to improve service delivery. Although we haven't begun the process of sharing yet...I am excited by the possibilities. The skills of honoring the other's truth will help us toward our goals of Servant Leadership. Hopefully, through our supervisors modeling and explaing the "truth skills" from this book, we will help our staff move even further along the way towards strengths building with our clients. The hoped for outcome....behavior change positively impacting obesity, low birth weight and prematurity. Georgia needs this kind of help. Just wanted to say, I believe and choose to act to assure these skills are applied in our public workforce. This book is intended for everyone both in the work life (public and private sectors) and personal life of individuals.

Its an interesting way of looking at things.
I havent finished the book yet but I like the thoughts in it.
I think its worth looking into.....

Having worked with thousands of people in the realm of personal clarity and extraordinary relationships I find Lisa's book a refreshingly new way to bring people to a higher level awareness and consciousness without the typical trauma and disconnect. This is an elegant solution that recognizes that everything is truth to someone. This awareness creates a space where all things become possible. I found the author's examples and stories wonderfully candid and engaging. No one ever convinced anyone of anything by making them wrong. If you want to learn how to engage and enroll another person or group with ease, elegance and authority, you need the formula this book provides. Along the way it opens you up to a whole new realm of reality, outside the influence of the world's predictable fear, uncertainty and doubt paradigm. I highly recommend this book.

Tom Voccola Author, The Accidental CEO - A Leader's Journey from Ego to Purpose

Would you like a template to help you rise above the constant either/or debates that you encounter every day?
In her personable, easy-to-read style, Mcleod provides clear guidance on how to stop wasting your energy trying to defend your side of the fence--and come to realize that there often doesn't need to be a fence. Learn how to get out of the rut of always having to prove yourself right and focus on actually resolving conflicts.

I discovered Lisa's helpful book when several readers of a book i wrote years ago about "triangling" to reach better agreements more easily in a book called Getting What You Want, using a "You" - "Us" - "Me" approach. Getting What You Want: How to Reach Agreement and Resolve Conflict Every Time (Plume)
To savor your life by sidestepping or reducing opportunities for conflict turn from instinctual defensive or "either/or thinking" to the "and" approach were you can hold apparently conflicting notions in your mind and find a middle way. Lisa makes this concept come alive with examples from the famous and from everyday situations. I've written two books on conflict resolution and read over 50. Lisa writes in a way that can interest even the non-avid reader. She pulls people in with her conversational style.

Wouldn't it be great if our country's leaders would implement The Triangle of Truth problem-solving model to address the healthcare crisis? Good ideas within the pages of this book. I recommend this book to anyone who faces conflict (and who doesn't), from in the office to the PTA or within their own families.

The Kindle version of this book costs $4 MORE than the hardcover book? What is going on in the world? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and it just cost the author and Amazon a sale.