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HUMOR: The Case for Navigating Life on the Precipice of a Smile

The Next Big Idea

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Is That a Lame Joke?

When we rise and status in an organization, our calibration completely gets off. There are research studies to support this that if you have two people tell the same objectively lame joke, no one laughs. It's actually a problem for bosses, for senior people, that you have to get really good at recognizing what is someone's genuine laugh and what's their fake laugh.

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