Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

34. How We Gain — Or Give Away — Authority While Speaking


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“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. 

To hear more from Jeffrey, listen to Pfeffer on Power, a podcast about accelerating your career.


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