As a natural introvert I've always dreaded coming up with witty conversation especially with those I don't know. Let's face it, even if you're a chatty Cathy, we've all been in conversations so ...

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As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

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