Facing Troublemakers: Notes on Dealing with Conflict

By Amr Muneer Dahab

There is a way to find victory over every conflict in your life if only you learn the key steps to becoming the most successful, powerful person you can be. Facing Troublemakers provides ideas that will inspire you deeply, not only in regard to business conflict but also in dealing with life problems.

Including hundreds of ideas that will open your eyes to new horizons without using dull, mechanical steps, author Amr Muneer Dahab draws on literature. His advice is succinct, deep, and requires you to contemplate and internalize principles to arrive at a philosophically coherent approach to living life to the fullest.

Facing Troublemakers is intended to be your gateway to creating your own philosophy for confronting conflicts, discovering your strengths, and overcoming obstacles. Take action in your life now, and reach the goals of which you dream.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665504652

Amr Muneer Dahab

www.nasdahab.com [e-mail] Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese born writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and electrical engineer. He has an experience of over twenty years as a columnist in opinion journalism and is widely acknowledged for his critical essays tackling controversial cultural, literary, intellectual, and political issues worldwide, and in the Arab world specifically. His over twenty years’ experience as a columnist in opinion journalism, in addition to his academic engineering degree and relevant practical career, allowed his words to be architected in a skillfully depict reality with honesty, objectivity, and creativity. Amr is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the United States of America. He has more than twenty five books published in Arabic, and his book “Damn the Novel” had been translated into English and published in 2018. Amr wrote in English “Facing Troublemakers”, “You Are Always Good to Go”, “Life Painkillers”, “Cuisine”, “Reading”, “Pocket”, “Inspire”, and “Criticizing”; they were published in 2020 and 2021. Amr’s collection of poems “Stubborn in Love” has been translated into English and published in 2021.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/14/2020

ISBN: 978-1-6655-0466-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-0465-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020920332

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 Before We Start

Chapter 2 Why Conflicts Exist

Chapter 3 Conflict Exciters and Favorite Places

Chapter 4 Allies

Chapter 5 Negotiations

Chapter 6 Before Falling into the Conflict Trap

Chapter 7 Understanding Conflicts

Chapter 8 Prioritizing Your Conflicts

Chapter 9 It Is Always Your Own Way

Chapter 10 Rewarding Your Opponent

Chapter 11 In the Middle of the Conflict

Chapter 12 To Attack or Not to Attack?

Chapter 13 Face-to-Face with Troublemakers

Chapter 14 Becoming a Troublemaker

Chapter 15 Ethics Challenges

Chapter 16 Recurrence of Conflicts

Chapter 17 Dealing with Betrayal

Chapter 18 Do Happy Endings Exist in Conflicts?

To electrical engineering: a bitter life-mate that inspired me in a tough way.

PREFACE

This book was not written with the purpose of waving a magic wand and crowning you with victory in every single conflict. Facing Troublemakers was written to provide you with ideas that inspire you not only with business conflicts but in dealing with life’s problems overall.

The book is not only a result of my own experiences but also my observations of conflicts around me, whether at work