Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

And in his latest On Character, Choices That Define a Life.

In your latest book On Character, which I love and think is really important, especially in this day and time, you argue that character is iterative.

At Think Fast Talk Smart, we're taking this quote by Benjamin Franklin, the famous US inventor and founding father, very seriously.

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We know this from a brilliant work by the linguist George Lakoff and the philosopher Mark Johnson in a book called Metaphors We Live By.

I'm reading Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull, the guy who found a Pixar.

And he says, you know, the overthinkers make mistakes at the same rate as the people that are quick to pull the trigger. It just takes them longer to make the mistakes because they're overthinking it.

And that insight in Ed's book just really sort of opened my eyes to the dangers, the perils of overthinking.

the ideas they present in this book called Made to Stick really were inspiring for me and served me well a lot over the years.

So Made to Stick is one of my go-to books that I recommend to everybody for communication.

I do, just because my book is in the making, and it's at the final stages. So, there's a leap, The Art of Leaping book that is like we're in the book proposal phase. So, it is coming.

His latest book, Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language, explores how the platforms we use create new contexts that require new ways of communicating.

His latest book is called Algo Speak, How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.

I read this book in 10th grade, the Etymology Con. Great book connecting how different words are all related to each other in different ways. Fascinating.

She trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and teaches courses about humor at the GSB and the San Francisco County Jail. Along with Jennifer Auker, she wrote the only business book I have ever learned and laughed through called Humor Seriously, Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life.

Many people listening might be afraid that I'm not funny. And I want to direct everybody to Naomi and Jennifer's book, Humor Seriously, which helps all of us become more comfortable with and understand how to use humor.

I really admire Carl Sagan because he is so good at taking very complex ideas and explaining them in a way that is very easy to understand.

And I think that's very admirable.

His latest book is The Archetype Effect.

We recently at the GSP, we've been, I've been working with some colleagues on developing a new asynchronous course called Stanford Business Essentials.

And this is a product that's targeted at early career professionals. So these are basically people who have graduated from university or something like that, and they're starting out in their careers. And one of the inspirations for this product is I look at my own children who have been in this situation, and they are just befuddled, right, by what's going on in their organizations.

In her book What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change, she reveals that our brains have what she calls a "social relevance system" -- our ability to understand what other people are thinking and feeling.

Her latest book is entitled What We Value, The Neuroscience of Choice and Change.

I want to turn to your new book, What We Value. And you dedicated a whole chapter of that book to brain synchrony that happens between people when we communicate, when we tell stories.

I'm going to focus on sort of the three ingredients that the book centers on, which have to do with our brain's value system, our brain's social relevance system, and our brain's self-relevant system.

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

His latest book is Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication.

Your latest book and work focus on virtual communication.

The Ping framework stands for P, perspective taking. I initiative, N nonverbal, G goals. Throughout my book, I tie each of the recommendations into that framework to help make it more memorable and more usable.

Her newest book is Likeable Badass, How Women Get the Success They Deserve.

In your book, you write a lot about power and status, and we've talked about both extensively on this show. But tell me how you define each. And something you wrote in your book that really caught my attention was it's less than ideal when we have this power first, status second mentality.

The challenge with status is that it makes power a lot easier to achieve, and it makes power a lot easier to use.

Whereas if you pursue status before or at least alongside power, everything is going to fall into place, right?

So in the book, I tell a story of another academic, Greg Northcraft.

I'm excited to share that our June newsletter is now available. Not only does it contain our new book reading list for the first part of 2025, but it also has an expert article on how to participate in and moderate panels.

In his latest book, *The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross Pressures That Make or Break Today's Companies*, Siegel explores how leaders today are "living in dualities," caught between managing existing processes and adapting to emerging disruptions.

And then in the book, we highlight what I call five cross pressures, these things that seem to be pulling us in opposite directions that make it hard for us to know what to do.

The idea of The Imagination Machine was to lay out how we could, obviously not with total predictability, but to some extent, shape this process of imagination.

Because if you think about it, a company is an imagination machine. It takes an idea and it turns it into a reality.