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The Conversation
SPROUT SPEECHES, NOT STUMP SPEECHES
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Ultimately, your goal in a 1:1 meeting is to build a relationship with another person and have vulnerable and critical conversations that enable you to help them do their best work. If your direct report has a broad agenda, that s great, start there. However, if their agenda is consistently limited to tactical in-progress work items and you're not ... See more
ZachGoldberg • Startup-CTO-Handbook/StartupCTOHandbook.md at main · ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Orders taken, drinks in hand, everyone in place, the topic is then discussed. If a few people begin to drift off-topic be vigilant, pull them back in. It’s not only a single topic but also a single conversation. Everyone listens to everyone. Everyone who wants to speak, speaks. Foster a self-awareness of convo-monopolization.
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
Sherry Turkle made a provocative observation in her 2016 book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. She claimed that it takes seven minutes for a conversation to really get good. In those first seven minutes, participants are mostly giving standard answers to one another’s questions. However engagened and genuine they may be,... See more