This book provides insight into your potential to achieve your goals through conscious communication. To acquire an insight, you require an overview. I wrote this book because I am enthusiastic about what Leary's Rose can achieve. Leary's Rose is an interaction model, rather like a road map. A road map will provide you with an overview of a landscape and an idea of how to find your way around it. Likewise Leary's Rose can help you find your way around the 'land' of interaction, interpersonal behaviour and your behaviour toward others. Interaction becomes perceptible in the shape of communication. Since the publication of the book, seven years ago, Influencing others? Start with yourself has fully satisfied my expectations. Leary's rose - which comes in handy when learning how to deal with other people's difficult behaviour - has been used by many in order to be more effective at work.