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You can choose the kind of relationship

Written by: Keith Ferrazzi

Article Overview: you have with anyone, even people you must work with for only a few minutes. Tom Peters writes of a losing his luggage recently and how the following lesson he learned from former Texas governor Ann Richards helped him choose the kind of relationship that produced both the best results and more joy in life:

You can choose the kind of relationship

you have with anyone, even people you must work with for only a few minutes. Tom Peters writes of a losing his luggage recently and how the following lesson he learned from former Texas governor Ann Richards helped him choose the kind of relationship that produced both the best results and more joy in life:

I attended a speech Ms R gave a couple of years ago...and, yes, it actually changed my life. Here's what she said (among many other things): "When you are facing a horrid service situation, which has you fit to kill, take a deep breath and remember, as, say, you approach an employee from the offending company, 'This woman [man] is the only person on earth who, at this moment, can help me—or not.'"

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