Why is Everyone So Bad at Communicating? (And How Can We All Get Better?)

Good communication is widely recognized as a cornerstone of high-functioning organizations—and yet, it can be hard to achieve consistently for many businesses and other groups. How and why do we fall short at conveying our messages to others, and what can we do to fix it? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, host Hal Weitzman revisits a conversation he had with three behavioral scientists—Booth’s Nicholas Epley and Ayelet Fishbach, and UCLA’s Heather M. Caruso, who was then at Booth—about the roots of and solutions to workplace miscommunication.