Hostage at the Table
How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance
Chapter One
Are You Being Held
Hostage Without
Knowing It?
A nine-year-old girl was spending time with her grandparents in Kansas.
The grandfather was away, so she was sleeping with her grandmother.
Suddenly, she awoke in the middle of the night to see her elderly grandmother
sitting up in bed and a man standing over her, dripping with
rain and with a wooden club in his hand, ready to strike. The little girl
felt a scream rising, and then her grandmother touched her hand and
she felt a flood of calm wash over her. The grandmother said to the man,
"I am glad you found our house. You've come to the right place. You are
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