Necessary Endings

The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

By: Henry Cloud

Narrated by: Henry Cloud

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

End Pain.
Foster Personal and Professional Growth.
Live Better.

While endings are a natural part of business and life, we often experience them with a sense of hesitation, sadness, resignation, or regret. But consultant, psychologist, and best-selling author Dr. Henry Cloud sees endings differently. He argues that our personal and professional lives can only improve to the degree that we can see endings as a necessary and strategic step to something better. If we cannot see endings in a positive light and execute them well, he asserts, the "better" will never come, either in business growth or our personal lives.

In this insightful and deeply empathetic book, Dr. Cloud demonstrates that, when executed well, "necessary endings" allow us to proactively correct the bad and the broken in our lives in order to make room for the professional and personal growth we seek. However, when endings are avoided or handled poorly - as is too often the case - good opportunities may be lost, and misery repeated.

Drawing on years of experience as an executive coach and a psychologist, Dr. Cloud offers a mixture of advice and case studies to help listeners:

• Know when to have realistic hope and when to execute a necessary ending in a business or with an individual
• Identify which employees, projects, activities, and relationships are worth nurturing and which are not
• Overcome people's resistance to change and create change that works
• Create urgency and an action plan for what's important
• Stop wasting resources needed for the things that really matter

Knowing when and how to let go when something, or someone, isn't working - a personal relationship, a job, or a business venture - is essential for happiness and success. Necessary Endings gives listeners the tools they need to say good-bye and move on.

©2010 Henry Cloud (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers

Everyone should read this

So many valuable lessons in this book. It helps establish healthy boundaries, corrective protocols when something isn’t working, and how to end things well so they become a learning tool (not just unhealthy baggage)!

A must listen

Easily digestible gift on perspective. This practice is needed in all thoughts, things, and relationships.

Excellent Practice and Advice to a Better Life

Loved Henry Cloud narrating. He also offers the most solid advice on why endings are necessary. Good examples and stories to get the ideas across more. Another great book by Henry Cloud!

Second time reading in five-ish years

A must read, keep one on the shelf, top five recommendations kind of book.

Turned a big career corner about five years ago with help from this book. Looking to turn another. Amazing to read it again. Got even more from it the second time.

Words to live by

Thank you Dr. Cloud for your insight and expertise, truly a gift from God. Amen.

Fantastic Framework for Transitions

This book put words to my recent experience of leaving a good job for a better experience. Even though I’m almost through the transition, these concepts have helped me understand much of what I’ve experienced, good and bad. A great read!

Management 800

Practical suggestions how to approach advanced management challenges including long term team members underperforming, external relationship(s) influence on life decisions work place productivity…..

A lifesaver

This book answered so many questions gave me so much insight and explain to me, my past realities and my current realities. This book is truly a godsend thank you Arthur for allowing God to use you. This is a great work. 

begining to ends

great book. great knowledge. I love how easy it was to understand and purvun practice

it make you think about needs to end to see the future. love it

Helpful for overall life evaluation

Lived how this will help me personally and with the clients I coach. This is a book I will certainly recommend.