" When you start your disagreement with a compliment: "this sounds interesting", it makes the person less defensive and gives you a valid reason to decline "I have too much on my plate at the moment".
Jackson is better off using his side-to-side crossover dribble to try to draw defensive help and become a playmaker.
Known for his defensive tactics and confrontational demeanour with referees and journalists, Mr Mourinho famously referred to himself as a "special one" when he took over as Chelsea coach in 2004.
For all of its look-at-me charge into a bold new arena, the establishment of Japan's first e-sports school is fundamentally defensive.
"At Berkshire, we only go where we are welcome," he promised in his 2015 letter to shareholders in a defensive passage about how he works with 3G despite their conflicting methods.
Your knee-jerk reaction may be to get defensive or even dismiss the critique entirely.
Kawhl Leonard, Spurs: The two-time reigning Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year is a starter for the second year in a row after making his All-Star debut last season.
They are defensive when receiving feedback, and only interested in conversations highlighting them.
"," Leonard, who has been named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year each of the past two seasons, characteristically downplayed his big offensive night.
Analysts said there was little to disguise the defensive nature of the deal.
They are defensive when receiving feedback, and only interested in conversations highlighting them.
As Travis Souders put it: "They're not necessarily mean, but they're certainly more commonly defensive.
You have a low opinion of yourself and so you're often defensive.
Adopting a defensive pose Many people naturally cross their arms or hunch over a bit just because they don't know what to do with their hands.
It may only raise slightly the defensive walls against cyber attack, they say.
, noted that many "grandiose narcissists are drawn to politics, professional sports, and the entertainment industry because success in these fields allows them ample opportunity to demonstrate their winner status and to elicit admiration from others, confirming their defensive self-image as a superior being.
Even before this, "the better-than-human threshold had been crossed", Tesla declared in a defensive blog post on Wednesday.
JUST , 'This word minimizes the power of your statements and can make you seem defensive or even apologetic,' writes Melody.
The key is to take responsibility for what happened; don't make excuses or be defensive.
That would be likely to mean more job losses and investment cuts, as well as possibly dividend cuts and more defensive mergers and acquisitions.
