6. Skill Builder Use the skills introduced on pages 287–289 to describe how you would respond to the following comments in a meeting. Identify which skill you are using:

a. “There’s no way people will work Sundays without being paid double overtime.”

b. “No consultant is going to tell me how to be a better manager!”

c. “I don’t think this brainstorming is worth the time. Most of the ideas we come up with are crazy.”

d. “Talking about interest rates reminds me of a time in the 1980s when this story about President Carter was going around. . . .”

e. “Sorry, but I don’t have any ideas about how t o c ut c osts.”