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Wrong Message
Your girlfriend dumps you. You send her a message: “Please come back. I am nothing without you.” Why is that the wrong message? Because it’s about you, not about her. If you want to persuade someone, state a benefit for her, not for you. Learn more in the video.
Seduction
Want to be more seductive? Of course you do. It’s not always easy but there are some systematic approaches that can help you convince people to do something because they want to do it. Watch the video to learn six such approaches.
Humor in business documents is like a quark: very hard to produce.
Why is it so hard to write something that makes people laugh? Mainly because writing eliminates so many elements of communications — tone of voice, body language, timing, inflection, etc. — that make people laugh. It’s very hard to write funny. Moral of the story: don’t try. Learn more in the video:
Telling a lame joke makes you look lame
I’ve heard a lot of speakers recently who must have been coached to always start a presentation with a joke. They follow this advice to the letter and wind up telling jokes that a) have nothing to do with the topic at hand, and b) aren’t funny. Telling a non-topical, non-funny joke just wastes time. Worse, a lame joke makes you look lame. Find out more in the video:
What is wisdom?
Wisdom seems to be composed of five elements:
- Willingness to resolve conflicts;
- Willingness to compromise;
- Recognition of the limits of personal knowledge;
- Awareness that a given problem may legitimately be seen from different perspectives;
- Understanding that things may get worse before they get better.
We ask our leaders to be decisive. Perhaps, instead, we should ask them to be wise.
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