'A practical and timely book' - Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global'Valuable for everyone' - Julia Samuel, bestselling authorBiting your tongue?Bottling it all up?From marriage to management challenges, learn how to change your relationships from exasperating to exceptional with this expert guide. The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections, or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer to others. When we find ourselves in an exceptional relationship -- the kind of relationship where we feel fully understood and supported for who we are -- it can seem like magic. But the truth is that the process of building and sustaining these relationships can be described, learned, and applied.David Bradford and Carole Robin taught interpersonal skills to MBA candidates for a combined seventy-five years in their legendary Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics. Now, they share their insights with you, including:- Why relationship-building is not the process of being with 'the right person' but rather creating the kind of relationship you want- Why deepening a relationship takes risk- The importance of vulnerability, curiosity and empathy in building relationships- How the modern world can help - and hinder - our ability to connectFilled with time-tested strategies for giving feedback, negotiating boundaries, and working through disagreements, Connect will be an important resource for anyone hoping to improve existing relationships and build new ones at any stage of life. Review 'I can't believe how much I learned about myself and about how others see the world'; 'I feel so much better equipped to create the kinds of relationships I want in my life'; 'Worth the entire price of admission'; 'This course changed my life; it was transformational' ?Previous students of ?Interpersonal Dynamics'Revelatory -- Andrew Billen ?The TimesCarole and David are masters at helping people bring IQ and EQ together to satisfy both and be successful. I recommend this book -- Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater and author of NYT No.1 bestseller 'Principles'At Stanford's business school, the most popular course isn't tech or entrepreneurship-it's a class on interpersonal dynamics that's affectionately known as Touchy-Feely. David Bradford and Carole Robin created the course, and their book is the next best thing to taking it. It'sfull of thoughtful, actionable advice on showing vulnerability, setting healthy boundaries, earning and restoring trust, handling feedback and conflict, and building and strengthening relationshipsIt's never been clearer that meaningful relationships are critical to a fulfilling and healthy life.Connect is a practical and timely book I highly recommend that shows us that by learning to connect with ourselves, we can more easily connect with others and build thriving relationships -- Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive GlobalRelationships are crucial to our happiness, and David Bradford and Carole Robin have spent decades teaching grateful students about them. This wide-ranging book, which builds on their famous course, will help anyone make their relationships exceptional, whether at home or in the workplace, and help them tolead better, more fulfilled lives.Connect is really valuable for everyone -- Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall PassBradford and Robin, with their 40 years of experience at Stanford, select carefully and analyze real examples, and propose concepts from which we can develop the soft skills so often in short supply today's society.From self-knowledge to building trust, from giving feedback to gaining influence, the book illustrates how those skills are critical and can be nurtured, everywhere, a