June 22, 2022
Written communication is more often misinterpreted, since there’s no body language or vocal cues to read. Interrobangs, textese, emojis—your message is about a lot more than dotting Is and crossing Ts.
June 08, 2022
“Thanks a lot”: whether you hear that phrase as sincerity or snark is all about someone’s paralanguage.
April 27, 2022
Snap at your partner for no reason? Feel like punching someone in the throat? “Lizard brain” is that ancient vestige inside all of us that doesn’t respond to facts or logic. There’s just one problem.
April 13, 2022
What someone learns from body language and vocal cues is important, but we’re not going to sub in interpretive dance for discovery calls anytime soon.
April 06, 2022
Be careful of falling for catchy internet “facts”—hook, line, and sinker—and letting them guide your company’s sales strategy.
March 30, 2022
Cognitive biases work together to create nine bias traps that affect decision-making. Escaping them requires prediction, intentionality, premortems, and a little less storytelling.
March 23, 2022
Once you’re familiar with a concept, it can feel like that concept should come easily to everyone. Not true. Cut it out with the acronyms already.
March 09, 2022
An anchoring bias makes it nearly impossible to look at something fresh. But you have to free yourself from it, whatever it takes–a second opinion, a red team–because otherwise you’ll drown.
March 02, 2022
Have you ever gone in for a pound, even after you realized that first penny was badly spent?