Disfluency

Pitch Anything

Oren Klaff’s Pitch Anything views the world through the assumption that social status is a zero-sum game in which your goal is to seize and leverage more social status. Through this lens, Pitch Anything gives strong frameworks and examples of how to gain, retain, and apply social status focusing…

Fearless Salary Negotiation

Josh Doody’s Fearless Salary Negotiation provides explicit rules of thumb that increase a negotiating employee’s sense of psychological safety and enables them to advocate for increased pay. The advice does not apply for executives, or for early start-up employees. There are 4…

Coaching Habit

Michael Stanier’s Coaching Habit describes 7 specific questions that reliably create comfortable conversation spaces aimed at resolving often unspoken concerns. Broadly, these questions all encourage one or more of the following 3 concepts:

1. Ditch the default

Smarter, Faster, Better

Charles Duhigg’s Smarter, Better, Faster offers 2 topics of substantial, precise, and actionable value-add. Those topics are:

1. The value of “disfluency”
2. The importance of building “psychological safety” within teams