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Principles of Communication

Rating 3.6
Word count
100K words
Chapters
22
ISBN
9787572625763

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Summary

This book distills Xiong Hao's years of experience in communication and negotiation into four core principles: clarity, kindness, adaptability, and restart. These principles are designed to help readers tackle a wide range of communication challenges—not only in person-to-person exchanges but also in fostering a more proactive, open mindset toward life's challenges and opportunities.

Beyond explaining communication theory, the book pairs each concept with precisely matched cases. The accessible presentation maintains professional depth while remaining easy to understand, and it is imbued with humanistic care. This book serves as a survival guide for workplace newcomers, a spiritual map for those seeking to break through relationship impasses, and a master key for resolving complex communication dilemmas.

Editor's review

Xiong Hao has long taught and researched communication and negotiation, and this book consolidates experiences scattered across specific situations into four actionable principles: clarity, kindness, adaptability, and restart. Its value lies not in offering universal scripts but in first establishing a judgment framework and then testing it against cases. The book handles its cases with restraint, preserving theoretical depth while making it easy for non-specialist readers to follow the reasoning—it never feels like grinding through a textbook. It is well suited to keeping at hand for repeated browsing; when preparing for an important conversation, dealing with a relationship stalemate, or just entering the workplace and needing to build communication habits, reading the relevant chapter is more effective than reading cover to cover. One caveat: the principled framework offers direction, but the finer calibration in specific situations still depends on readers adjusting it to their own circumstances—don't expect to copy the bullet points and solve every problem.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Young people just entering the workplace who need to build basic communication habits
  • Readers who often find conversations go poorly due to unclear expression or emotional outbursts
  • Those who want to systematically organize their communication thinking rather than just find script templates
  • Ordinary readers who need to break through relationship stalemates and seek a way out

Not a good fit for

  • Readers expecting to directly apply fixed scripts and immediately resolve specific conflicts
  • Readers seeking in-depth negotiation theory or academic research materials
  • Those who only want light stories and are unwilling to engage in self-reflection

Reading tips

  1. Start with the overview of the four principles, then choose the cases matching your most troublesome scenarios for close reading.
  2. After each chapter, review a recent real conversation against the principles to identify gaps.
  3. Keep the book on your desk or nightstand and, when facing a communication problem, use the table of contents to locate and reread relevant sections.
  4. After finishing, pick one principle to practice deliberately for two weeks, then check the results.

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 本书的写作初衷
  3. 本书的内容精要
  4. 写在前面
  5. 引言 七个关于“沟通”的纠偏
  6. 第一章 打开“清晰”世界的“三把钥匙”
  7. 对信息的厘清
  8. 对语境的适应
  9. 对自我的袒露
  10. 第二章 通往“友善”互动的三座“山门”
  11. 互惠
  12. 觉知
  13. 召唤
  14. 成为“友善的大人”
  15. 第三章 穿梭在“崇山峻岭”中的“应变”
  16. 《论语》中的沟通哲学
  17. 沟通界的MBTI
  18. 第四章 找到让彼此“重启”的归途
  19. 重启的智慧
  20. 重启的关键词
  21. 重启的“制胜法宝”
  22. 后记

FAQ

What distinguishes this book from ordinary communication script books?
It does not focus on ready-made scripts. Instead, it first presents four principles—clarity, kindness, adaptability, and restart—and then uses cases to show how to judge and adjust. What readers learn is a framework for analyzing communication situations, so they can reason through new scenarios themselves rather than only memorize lines.
Can I understand it without a background in communication studies?
Yes. The author balances theoretical explanation with cases, and the presentation is accessible, not requiring prior professional knowledge. As long as you are willing to compare the ideas with your own experience, the barrier to reading is not high.
Can the cases in the book be directly copied into workplace situations?
The cases are more demonstrations of how the principles play out than standard answers. The right calibration varies greatly across organizations and relationships. It is best to treat the cases as starting points for thinking and adjust your wording and pacing to your own circumstances.

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About the author

熊浩 Author

Xiong Hao is an author about whom limited public information is currently available; the Chinese book database contains only one work under this name, The Principles of Communication. According to the existing information, the book falls into the category of inspirational and personal growth and centers on the theme of communication, aimed at general readers who wish to improve their interpersonal exchanges and strengthen their skills in expression and listening. Since no reliable public record exists regarding the author's background, education, or professional identity, no speculation is offered here, and only the work itself can be briefly described: it discusses common issues in communication through a framework of principles, in accessible language and with clear organization, making it a practical example of self-help writing. For readers interested in everyday communication skills and personal growth, Xiong Hao's book offers an introductory reference. Its writing style and broader influence await further materials and works for confirmation.

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