Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

He hosts a podcast and has authored many books, including his latest, Remarkable, Nine Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference.

Because it was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That famous line sets a theme of what the whole storyline of the book is going to be about.

Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret, How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.

In that book, I looked at this misunderstood emotion of regret.

What people regret over time are things they didn't do. They didn't take that trip. They didn't ask that person out on a date. They didn't start that business. And I think it's because we are just slightly over indexed on risk.

I wish you well on your new book, The Power of Regret. And I appreciate your time.

In your book, When the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, you give a lot of advice on how to maximize our motivation and take care of ourselves in this incredibly fast paced, always on world that we live.

And unfortunately, we're often very intentional about what we do. We're intentional about how we do it and who we do it with. But When it comes to When we do stuff, we're not intentional and we should be because it actually matters.

I initially in that book on timing, I was gonna write about maybe two pages on breaks in the chapter on this hidden pattern of the day. And there was so much research and so good research that I ended up writing an entire chapter on breaks.

And he is the co-author of the textbook New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur.

She is also the author of Disrupt Yourself, Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, and Smart Growth, How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.

Additionally, along with Thomas Lease, Maggie is the co-author of the book Getting More of What You Want.

And one framework I'll share, and this is from my first book, The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, is really thinking about before you even have a difficult conversation.

So one framework I'll share, and this is from my first book, The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, is really thinking about before you even have a difficult conversation.

In your book, Getting Along, you share the benefits of having friends at work and actually seeking out those friendships.

I love this question because I think we could spend all day talking through the patterns of behavior that drive us up a wall. But the reality is when you look at all of the stats, most people have a majority of positive relationships at work or at least neutral.

One of my favorite pieces of research I found in working on the book was a group of researchers at Rutgers University found that people who reported having a best friend at work had higher performance ratings.

So one framework I'll share, and this is from my first book, The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, is really thinking about before you even have a difficult conversation.

Along with Alex Deng, he has written the new book, The Venture Mindset, Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth.

I enjoyed reading the book, and there are many bits of advice and guidance that help anybody who has to make important decisions, especially under uncertainty.

You describe venture capitalists as being failure champions.

So when I say VCs are failure champions, it means that the real smart venture capitalists and venture-minded people, in fact, not only are not afraid of failure, but they know that in some situations you have to seek constructive failure.

I've changed a lot and I think that I'm implementing myself every single one of those nine principles that were identified in the book because, yes, I researched them for so many years.

And she is the author of Rulemakers, Rule Breakers, How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World.

I have a tightness mindset quiz on my website so you can take it and it will give you a sense of really your own default.

Deb is the author of Acting with Power, Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe.

Linda is also the author of three important and popular books, Becoming a Manager, Collective Genius, The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation and Being the Boss, and The Three Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader.

Linda is also the author of three important and popular books, Becoming a Manager, Collective Genius, The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation and Being the Boss, and The Three Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader.

The concept of slice of genius came from the work I did at Pixar. And they talk about everybody having a slice of genius. And when we were thinking about what should we call our book, we felt that Collective Genius was the only thing we could do.

Linda is also the author of three important and popular books, Becoming a Manager, Collective Genius, The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation and Being the Boss, and The Three Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader.

He wrote a book called Employees First, Customer Second. The reason why he's such a good communicator is his language is so visual and so colorful.

I highly recommend you look up Employees First, Customer Second or anything that Vinit has written or said.

So it's an entire chapter in my books. In the chapter, it's called the five nonverbal rules of power.

Now what it is is a Venn diagram where the perception nonverbals, the ones we need to know to read power accurately and the ones that people think are associated with power, they intersect. And there's five areas of nonverbal behavior that if we remember those, we can really tap into power.

So what I like to recommend is for people to actually take a page from Carol Robbins' book Connect. In the back of that appendix, you'll actually see a feelings chart. Carry that feelings chart around and check in at the beginning of meetings, at the end of meetings, and say how am I feeling right now at a granular level?

As an example, before our chat today, I've listened to this podcast since the very beginning. I love it. And so as a result, before I came in today, I was excited. I was glad I was anticipatory, but I was also nervous.

He's an adjunct professor, specializing in creativity and entrepreneurship at Stanford, and the author of Idea Flow, the only business metric that matters.

Jeremy and I talk about his book idea flow.

He's the best-selling author of Competing in the New World of Work.