Suggestions on resources (books, courses, etc) for improving the following?

Effective communication
Management and mentorship
Working well with people with different working styles
Negotiation

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Art of the Deal for the last one

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"Our Iceberg is melting" - it touches almost all of this aspect but in a different way. Very thematic book, I have found pretty useful.

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Difficult Conversations

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Radical Candor. Conversational Intelligence. Anything by Patrick Lencioni.

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So basically a cheat code to AP level

Most of this would be solved by just inserting yourself into as many networking events as possible to speed dating. I had a colleague go into stand up comedy as a way of improving their comms skills. Worked wonders. No book can teach you this kind of experience

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If you use a book to teach you this, it’ll sound fake and people who are good at this will know and it’s becomes so awkward

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