Reviews for Coaching A Winning Team

The average rating for Coaching A Winning Team based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-15 00:00:00 Marina Kalkum Parts of the book I found particularly useful: What are some challenges that people, who go into a relationship, have? - Page 5: The phrase "I love you" can connote anything from lust to spiritual connection. - Page 9: Personality traits, which are associated with higher rates of divorce, are: 1. High degree of neuroticism. 2. Low degree of agreeableness. 3. High degree of extraversion. 4. Low degree of conscientiousness. - Page 34: Children of divorced parents often feel guilt, especially when they were blamed or took on responsibility for their parents' disagreements. - Page 36: Research shows that over half of children of divorce felt their family life was stressful. - Page 65: Because romantic love intrinsically involves a lowering of defenses, vulnerability and heightened sensitivity, people are more easily hurt, needier, more jealous, angrier, more childlike, and emotionally labile than in any other interpersonal situation. - Page 69: Fear of rejection underlies all other dangers. Why? Because being approved of is important for our self-worth. Rejection can take its form of ignoring, misunderstanding, criticizing, contradicting, disbelieving or falsely attributing malevolent motives to another's behaviour. - Pages 88-89: For most of history, it was inconceivable that a person would choose would choose his or her partner on the basis of love. Two people became a couple for other reasons, for example power, money, status, income, religion, and/or values. - Page 141: The less information a child of divorced parents gets from his or her parents about the reasons for the parental divorce, a) the more problems the child has dealing with the parental divorce, and b) the more difficulty the child has assessing his or her own relationships. - Page 152: Younger children are most negatively affected by parental divorce. Reason # 1: They are more vulnerable to changes such as geographical move, loss of friends and departure of a parent because their psychic structures are in the process of formation. Reason # 2: They are less likely to have outside support systems. - Page 152 and 154: Adults from divorced families in the UK prefer co-habitation to marriage and are emotionally conflicted about intimate relationships. How far have which countries come in the transformation from arranged relationships to love based relationships? - Pages 104, 105 and 108: The most common method of mate selection globally is by arrangement - usually by parents helped by relatives or matchmakers. Examples: Muslim countries, collectivist Eastern cultures and Hindu cultures. The focus in arranged marriages on family allegiance, similarity in backgrounds, the importance placed on marriage as a God like union and the focus on friendship as integral to marriage are all antidotes to marital dissolution. - Page 113: In Turkey and Kenya, mate selection is increasingly based on love. In Turkey, love marriages are particularly on the rise among young and educated people, who live in cities. - Page 124: In China, arranged marriages were abolished in 1950. - Page 127: In Japan, the marriage rate has fallen and the divorce rate has risen. Japanese women find parts of marriage unattractive. Childcare facilities are perceived to be inadequate or overly expensive. Also, men in Japan spend much less time than women on housework and are away from families a lot for work reasons. In addition, work possibilities have improved for Japanese women. - Page 135: The Netherlands is fast developing into a society with many lifestyles other than marriage. How do economic and technological changes influence relationships? - Page 76: Over the last 3 generations, the American house has been TV centered. - Page 78: Dating via Internet is fast becoming the primary dating service of young people. - Pages 80 and 84: People, who are worried about money, spend less time with friends / other people. - Page 86: With increasing mobility, friends are seldom available for emotional support during times of crisis. What are indicators of good relationships? - Pages 98, 138 and 146: Similarities in physical attractiveness, age, education and values affect the degree to which two people like each other and will be satisfied in a relationship. - Page 138: Romantic passion fades, as reality based knowledge takes over. In relationships, that work well, partners have the willingness to work for the resurrection of the relation by focusing on the strengths of compannionate love based on friendship, affection, shared emotional intimacy, and commitment. - Page 138-139: Across countries, good communication skills are indicators of good relationships. The more partners share their thoughts and emotions with each other, the better is the relationship. Because happy couples bring up conflictual matters, they are in conflict less frequently.than couples, who do not bring up conflictual matters. - Page 145: Happy couples give their relationships top priority in their lives. - Page 150: Good conflict management are important to maintain emotional bond.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-28 00:00:00 M Neville I would recommend this to anyone with a mother. I thought it was insightful and helpful in understanding mothers, mine and others. Particulary interesting if you also are raising a daughter. Really enjoyed it!