How To Succeed When Everyone's Mad at You

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever had to make an impossible decision? One that doesn't have an obvious "right" answer. One that someone will inevitably hate. John knows this feeling all too well. He's the superintendent for a mid-size school district in California. To say the last school year was difficult is a major understatement… John tried to ensure the safety of his students, teachers, and faculty while balancing the reality of students struggling in their virtual classes. Throughout the school year, John's relationship with his teachers and the teachers union deteriorated. Now, classes are back in session and he's hoping to find common ground as soon as possible. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Gary Friedman, a world-renowned conflict mediator. He has some tips on how all of us can mend a fraught relationship before it's too late.

If you liked this episode, check out "How To Stand Up to Your Terrible Manager—Without Getting Fired."

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0:30.9	Hey, how-to listeners. I want to share something exciting with you today. I'm going to be
0:36.7	turning my attention full time to working on a newsletter of mine
0:40.1	called The Range Report that you can find at David Epstein.com.
0:43.9	And that also means that I'm going to be handing over the hosting duties of this show.
0:48.1	It's been an absolute honor and pleasure to host for the last 30 episodes.
0:52.7	I'm really excited to introduce a host who was, you know, what I would call my first draft
0:58.2	pick if I could choose anyone to host this show, because she's had such an incredibly varied
1:03.2	career.
1:03.9	So I want to actually reintroduce you to Amanda Ripley, who was a guest expert on a previous
1:09.5	show about conflict.
1:12.9	Amanda's written incredible books about disaster survival, international education, and her newest one high conflict about really
1:19.9	intractable conflicts and how to get out of them. And so I'm really, really pleased and excited
1:25.3	to introduce you today to the new host of How to Amanda Ripley.
1:29.6	Thank you so much, David. It's great to be here. I'm really excited because, you know,
1:34.0	having been a sort of traditional journalist for a long time, writing for Time Magazine and other places,
1:40.7	I've sort of come to think that the best journalism these days is low ego journalism
1:46.7	that actually speaks directly to what people are struggling with. So that's one of the things
1:52.7	I love about this show and what you and Charles have done with it to kind of bring the audience
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