Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

She is the author of the influential book, The Fearless Organization, creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation, and growth.

And he is the author of many books, including Dying for a Paycheck and Power, Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.

He's the best-selling author of several books, including The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and his latest book is How to Know a Person.

He's the best-selling author of several books, including The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and his latest book is How to Know a Person.

In his latest, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, he explores how vulnerability -- both being vulnerable ourselves and creating space for others to be as well -- is the key to fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives.

Brooks is a writer for the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the best-selling author of several books. In his latest, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, he explores how vulnerability -- both being vulnerable ourselves and creating space for others to be as well -- is the key to fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives.

Joe and Karen have written three helpful books on meetings.

Suddenly Virtual, Making Remote Meetings Work,

Suddenly Hybrid, Managing the Modern Meeting,

Here's what I learned from the mistake that I made [and] steps that I'm going to put into place to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Leadership plus vulnerability, not just the vulnerability piece.

It's not just a reframe, it's a demonstration.

If you want other people that you work with to act and behave a certain way, it has to start with you.

So if you lead with vulnerability, then those around you will lead with vulnerability.

Among her many books are Stand Out, representing you, and her latest, The Long Game.

Among her many books are Stand Out, representing you, and her latest, The Long Game.

I think about in my most recent book, The Long Game, I tell the story of a guy named Phil Van Nostrand who was a, I mean, now he's become every year more and more successful.

It's called Talking Heads, the new science of how conversation shapes our worlds.

For me, a conversation is where we create a shared reality together by means of communicating with each other.

One of your earlier books is entitled A Brain for Business, A Brain for Life, how insights from behavioral and brain science can change business and business practice for the better.

So a good way to think about this is to assume that you've gone with a course of action, assume that it has blown up in your face, and that it has been a complete catastrophe, and sit down and do a premortem rather than a postmortem.

Their book, Humor Seriously, is all about how to leverage humor in a work environment. So it's appropriate.

Chris's Book: Never Split the Difference Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

He is the CEO of the Black Swan Group and co-author of Never Split the Difference, Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It.

And your newest book, The Joy of Movement, is a testament to that idea.

She is the author of the recently released, Say More, Lessons From Work, The White House and The World.

Thank you for having me and you're quoted in my book so it's a thrill to be here.

So in your book you write and I quote the three principles of strategic communication are identify the audience use what you know to figure out how to engage them and lower barriers to that engagement.

I talk about in my book the mother in law test and my mother in law is a retired teacher incredibly well read very smart pay attention to the news.

I talked about this a little bit in the book about people who in the White House briefing room would raise questions from a straw man perspective right everybody's saying this.

His books include Purple Cow, Lynchpin, and this is marketing.

Some of you might remember that Carissa joined me on episode 61 to discuss her previous book, The Secret Language of Maps, how to tell visual stories with data.

I'm working right now on a little bit of a communication strategy that's based on salt fat acid heat it's a cookbook it's sort of like what are the ingredients that are really needed for communication and I've just been using it as a lecturer for now just to see how it works something about it's a little abstract I gotta like get down to more of the nitty-gritty.

It's called Hope for Cynics, the surprising science of human goodness.

Your new book focuses on cynicism.