34. How We Gain — Or Give Away — Authority While Speaking

“Simple language, forceful language, vivid language, and keeping it simple and direct,” says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, are all powerful tools to strengthen your communication.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host and lecturer Matt Abrahams interviews Pfeffer, the author of Dying for a Paycheck, about the verbal and nonverbal ways we can harness, or give away, our authority when we’re speaking to others.

Think Fast, Talk Smart is a podcast produced by Stanford Graduate School of Business. Each episode provides concrete, easy-to-implement tools and techniques to help you hone and enhance your communication skills.