Conversations Don’t End When We Want Them To

Idea posted: November 2021

Institutions: Harvard University    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

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As human beings, we are spectacular at pulling off all the complicated tasks it takes to have a conversation. The one conversation challenge we have not mastered is coordinating the end…

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Why Workplace Conversations Are More Successful than You Believe

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: Cornell University    Harvard University    Essex University    Yale University   

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Conversations with new people are an important part of most people’s social and professional lives. After such conversations, people often seem to underestimate whether the other person in the conversation…

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