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The Promise That Changes Everything

The Promise That Changes Everything

I Won’t Interrupt You

Summary

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How often do you interrupt? How often do people interrupt you? Can you remember the last time someone listened to you all the way through your thinking?


In her new book, Nancy Kline, bestselling author of Time To Think, makes this radical proposal: 'I won't Interrupt you' is a promise that changes everything. It deepens relationships, spawns dignity, raises the intelligence of groups, and enriches every conversation. It may, in fact, be the most important promise we ever make. And the hardest to keep. This promise matters because when we interrupt each other, we interrupt our thinking, and that interrupts the quality of everything we do.

Nancy has spent the last three decades researching independent thinking and the barriers that prevent us from thinking for ourselves. In The Promise That Changes Everything Nancy shares insights into the nature of interruption, case studies and stories from her work with clients, as well as simple ways to change how we behave with each other so that this promise can change our lives.

© Nancy Kline 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

About the author

Nancy Kline

Nancy Kline is President of Time To Think, an international leadership development and coaching company. She is also a published author and public speaker.

Time To Think began in 1984 and grew out of Nancy's consulting and teaching work near Washington, DC, where she had served as a Founding Director of The Thornton Friends School for twelve years and as Director of The Leadership Institute for six years. She is a Fellow of Ashridge Management College, UK.

Nancy was born and raised in New Mexico and lives in England with her husband, Christopher Spence.
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