‘How to Get Along With Anyone’: A Needed Skill

Authors John Eliot and Jim Guinn show how to outsmart conflict before it starts.
‘How to Get Along With Anyone’: A Needed Skill
The authors describe the five personality styles that define typical responses to conflict.
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When your flight is delayed, and delayed, and delayed again, how do you feel?  When an inexperienced new hire brings havoc to the department, what do you do?  Your teenagers refuse to discuss their bad behavior, or you’ve been standing in a long line for ages and someone jumps ahead: How do you handle it?

At a time when conflict seems to be everywhere—the office, the home, in school, and around the globe—there’s comfort to be had in the new book “How to Get Along with Anyone: The Playbook for Predicting and Preventing Conflict at Work and at Home.”  Maybe, as the authors say, we can learn to get along.

MJ Hanley-Goff
MJ Hanley-Goff
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MJ Hanley-Goff has written for Long Island’s daily paper, Newsday, the Times Herald-Record, Orange Magazine, and Hudson Valley magazine. She did a stint as editor for the Hudson Valley Parent magazine, and contributed stories to AAA’s Car & Travel, and Tri-County Woman. After completing a novel and a self-help book, she now offers writing workshops and book coaching to first time authors, and essay coaching to high school students.