jeff: Forcefulness means, you know, being speaking with conviction. If if you say something often enough and with enough conviction overtime, you may not convince any other human beings, but you will certainly convince yourself. Andd for you to be able to convince anybody else of something, you have to believe what's coming out of your mouth. Think fast, talk smart is a podcast produced by stamford graduate school of business.
“Simple language, forceful language, vivid language, and keeping it simple and direct,” says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, are all tools to increase the strength of your communication. In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host and lecturer Matt Abrahams interviews Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, about the verbal and nonverbal ways we can harness, or give away, our authority in communication.
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