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In the kickoff to our Summer Learning Series, we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes. This interview features Stanford GSB faculty mem...
All communication comes from a place of creativity and creativity is rooted in design. In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, strategic c...
“It's not reassuring when we don't know the answers to critically important questions involved in health and wellbeing. But it's far more of...
Why do we do what we do? What factors drive us? And how do things like competition with others help us achieve our goals?These are the questi...
In relationships between imperfect people, mistakes are inevitable. And when we find ourselves with damaged connections, it’s a specific kind...
“Listening actively and deeply happens when I genuinely believe that the person who's speaking has intrinsic worth and brings a perspective t...
“Anyone can make a complicated thing sound complicated. It takes real skill to make it sound simple.” This episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart...
“Very often, you are not designing for yourself. And you kind of have to get out of your own way to effectively design with others’ needs in...
“A mistake that some leaders make is to assume that the people in your organization share your core values. Some of the time some of them do,...
“You’re not going to hit the mark with everybody, but you still need to be mindful of everybody,” says Jonathan Levav, the King Philanthropie...
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host Matt Abrahams sits down with finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen to tal...
In this 50th episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host Matt Abrahams and executive producer Jenny Luna share the winners' plans from our Confid...
“Make them want to turn the page,” says Paula Moya, a professor at Stanford University and author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Readi...
“We have to make data emotional because emotions are what drive us to act,” says Chip Heath, a professor of organizational behavior and autho...
“Eighty five percent of people report being nervous about speaking in public, and I believe the other 15% are lying,” says Matt Abrahams, lec...
“Great founders are great storytellers,” says Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Stephanos Zenios in this “Quick Thinks” episode....
