Book Review – Just Listen – Mark Goulston
This is a book review of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston.
How I got the book:
Electronic review copy sent to me (sorry, I’m kind of late at reviewing this book).
Background:
Dr. Mark Goulston is a business advisor, consultant, trainer and coach trained as a clinical psychiatrist who honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer.
Just Listen is a collection of anecdotes, tips, and strategies how to effectively communicate with other people, especially those people who don’t want to listen.
The strengths:
This book is loaded with tips, techniques and anecdotes about developing and improving your listening skills. Many of these techniques involve different ways of listening, questioning and building trust with other people so you can get to the root of their problems, anger, fears, and concerns.
Anything that promotes better listening, communication, and understanding between people is a must-have resource.
To give you a better idea of what’s included in the book, here are the section headings:
- The Secret To Reaching Anyone
- The Nine Core Rules For Getting Through To Anyone
- 12 Quick and Easy Ways to Acheive Buy-In and Get Through
- Putting It All Together: Fast Fixes For Seven Challenging Situations
The areas for improvement
I cannot think of any good reason why you shouldn’t buy this book. Seriously. It’s valuable, valuable, valuable information that we would all benefit from. Although, it’s worth pointing out that you could conceivably use the techniques in this book to manipulate the hell out of a lot of people. But I trust that you’re one of the good guys.
Other points of interest:
The term amygdala hijack, although a bit of a tongue-twister, makes so much sense that it’s scary.
Verdict (10 out of 10): (this book is extremely valuable to anyone who needs to communicate to other people… like you and me…)
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