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60 - 40 or Fight
How to Get Along With
Someone Besides Yourself
Everett M. Christensen
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Price: $14.95
Paperback | 216 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9795926-0-7
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Summary
60-40 Or Fight suggests that every relationship is a two person relationship and each person must accept 60% of the responsibility for making the relationship work;expecting the other person to accept less than half but more than none. When each person accepts more than half of the responsibility for making a relationship work, the the overlap in flexibility will provide a comFort zone within which to build the relationship. If each person is willing to accept only half of the responsibility to make the relationship work then, because no one knows exactly where half is, each is likely to accept less than half and the lack of flexible overlap will result in a combat zone within which relationships are destroyed i.e. a comBAT zone. The book 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." The author suggests that the real goal of everyone is not money, or comfort, or security or love but Happiness; and the surest way to find happiness is by being a Contributor. Then all these other things will fall into place as necessary.
 About the Author
The Author has spent more than 45 years analyzing and evaluating the development of interpersonal relationships. 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 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. The author believes, as he has written in the book, that "The Greatest Contribution We Can Make to Ourselves is to Contribute Something to Someone Else."
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