Predicting relationship failure

John Gottman’s research on predicting interpersonal relationship failure should resonate with vendor managers. Gottman’s team, profiled in the Australian Financial Review and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, has identified four traits that, if present, indicate that the relationship has an 85% chance of failure. The odds of failure increase to 97.5% if one party's attempts to repair [...]

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