Awkward conversations are not just valuable—they're often essential for achieving important goals. Often, there is no way to have a particular conversation without it being awkward! Examples: Talking ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

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Working with senior executives taught me that leaders who advance their careers don't avoid tough conversations that make everyone else uncomfortable. Instead, they've figured out how to turn those ...

Leda Stawnychko has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anamika Choudhary does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...