In the September Author Spotlight ...
Everett M. Christensen,
Author of
60-40 or Fight

 

Everett Christensen has spent more than 45 years analyzing and evaluating the development of interpersonal relationships. In his new book, 60-40 Or Fight, Christensen suggests that in every relationship, each person must accept 60% of the responsibility for making the relationship work.

"Every relationship is a unique two-person relationship", Christensen explains. "In other words, you, I and everyone else has a unique relationship with every person with whom we come in contact. If we want to ensure any successful relationship, it is incumbent on us to take more than 50% of the responsibility to make that happen. If we are willing to accept more than half the responsibility to make a relationship work, then we are inherently expecting less than 60% from the other person."

60-40 or Fight is based on 25 Christensen Postulates which are explained throughout the book such as "Conflict, in relationships, is inevitable but resolvable;" "Everyone can do something but no one can do everything;" "When we have a problem we should look for a solution, not for someone to blame;" "Pleasure is conditioned by contrast;" and "The past is to learn from, not to live in."

Christensen suggests that the real goal of everyone is not money, or comfort, or security or love but Happiness. "The surest way to find happiness is by being a Contributor," he says. "Then all these other things will fall into place as necessary. I'm confident you'll discover how great people can be and how downright wonderful most of them really are."

Christensen's experience in communications and relationships is vast - first as a personnel specialist; then as a college recruiter; then as an instructor in supervisory development; then as a Human Resources Director; then as Senior Vice President of a major financial institution; then as a consultant in management; then as a university professor in a Graduate School of Management; and finally, as the owner of several businesses. He also has a BA degree in Economics from Michigan State University and an MA degree in Psychology from the University of Minnesota.

His first article appeared in The Personnel Journal in 1964 and his first book, Dynamic Supervision was published in 1970. Since then he has published 55 Magic Management Words (1989) and It All Counts Towards Twenty (2004), a fictional novel about life in the Air Force.

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