When Silence Is a Weapon

What Silence Does — Part Three Give the number. Then stop talking. The first to speak loses. If you’ve ever sat through a negotiation course, you’ve heard it.

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How Silence Shapes Relationships

What Silence Does — Part One You’ve heard the old sales adage: the first to speak loses. It’s one of the core tenets of negotiation, and every sales

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The Hijack: What Happens When You Remove Someone’s Agency

Today I lost respect for a platform I’d considered one of my favorite tools, and it came down to a single experience that hijacked my agency. A few

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It’s About Your Promises: Managing Expectations You Set Yourself

Something pings. You jump. That’s the shape of it. A notification arrives, there’s a jolt, and an answer leaves your hands before you’ve decided anything. We’ve been trained

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The Signal Your Customer Experience Is Sending

Most of us think about customer experience as something that begins once someone becomes a customer. Onboarding. Delivery. Follow-up. You know – the part where the actual work

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Unsubscribe Should Be Your Favorite Thing to See

Have you ever gotten stuck in a customer experience that feels like falling into a black hole? You go online to do something simple – downgrade a plan,

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