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Executive coach Ed Batista treats difficult conversations — firing an employee, giving hard feedback, confronting a boss, pushing back on a co-founder — as something you *prepare* for rather than improvise. His two central frameworks are **setting the table** (deliberately designing the relationship, timing, duration, place, and physical space of the conversation before it starts) and **learning to yield** (a driving metaphor for in-conversation calibration: see the signs, tap the brakes, hit the gas lightly). Underneath both is a claim about the body: under stress, our thought, speech, and br…

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