How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

CNLP 814 | Networking Without the Awkward: Michael Bungay Stanier on Better 1:1s and Building a Path No One Else Is Walking

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 30 June 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 53 min 50 sec in.

Michael Bungay Stanier mentions How to Work With Almost Anyone in the context of discussing the value of early readers. He recounts how his friend Misha responded to the first draft by saying "this is ludicrous, I don't even know what this book is about," leading Stanier to scrap everything and save only one sentence, which became the seed of the finished book.

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