THE NON-OBVIOUS SHOW · EPISODE 33
with Michael Bungay Stanier
How To Work With (Almost) Anyone: featuring Michael Bungay Stanier, the award-winning author of The Coaching Habits, as well as teacher and speaker who has sold over 1.5 million books, shares solutions to this question in his book How to Work With (Almost) Anyone. In this episode, Rohit Bhargava and Michael Bungay Stanier discuss topics inspired by the book, including keystone conversations, how to stay human when working with people, and his mission to infect everyone with the "possibility virus."
Author of The Coaching Habit; founder of Box of Crayons
Michael Bungay Stanier founded the training company Box of Crayons and wrote The Coaching Habit and How to Work with Almost Anyone. He teaches managers to coach by asking better questions and giving less advice, and now runs the learning platform MBS.works.
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