Class Takeaways — Humor: Serious Business

It's easy to believe that if you take your life or your mission seriously, the presence of humor betrays that mission. But leaders of all stripes know we can do serious things without taking ourselves too seriously. In fact, often we can do them better. Stanford Graduate School of Business Marketing Professor Jennifer Aaker and Lecturer Naomi Bagdonas, MBA ’15, designed the course Humor: Serious Business to help students develop an appreciation for the role of humor in the workplace. Bagdonas calls humor “an underleveraged superpower in business.” #classtakeaways

[smallsteps]

"Now remember that this isn't about becoming a comedian, it's about looking at the world in a different way. Our brains are wired to find what we set out to look for. So start looking for humor."

Gold!

[AlbertoCastilloV]

A positive attitude and some humor bring a more relaxed environment to embrace difficult tasks and resolve problems.

[dingleberry]

I laughed during the whole video. I just need to get into Stanford now

[kungfudunk]

I really love this channel more and more, please keep upload these kinda of content and lecturer content as well. It's so insightful!

[gsgomezintl]

Absolutely right. I do agree. Personality is a large portion of humoristic expression. This is not for everybody.

[ThomasBarrios]

This video deserves 7, 5 billion views 😁

[Rui_Bread]

i like it! i will try to improve my humor to enlight our grim office. Thank you Professors!

[anandm]

2:32 Snipper; 3:07 Sweetheart; 4:39 Magnet/Stand-up; Great Video :)

[kimingay]

The meaning of humor is being positive thoughts and Happy thoughts!

One issue is that people these days get offended too quickly.

[AgilPaulwin]

A non-humorous video about humour from Stanford. How very original!

[opeyemipraise]

Humor has never been so serious before...

[coryhall]

I wanna be friends with all these professors

[eleonoraformatoneeszczepan]

Hey, a comment section ... good stuff.

[satvikpandey]

In exam : 5 takeaways from humour class
Me in more depression

[berhamlatif]

Well done
But is there a free guide to know which humour style we have?

[vinodnarayanswamy]

Could anyone suggest a book on this topic ?

[jonasfrancisco]

Hi, I'm Brazilian! I would like a possible translation into Portuguese, please.

[prakashtaurion]

I’m feeling forced to laugh now, after this serious video….

[skywalkn]

just get really stoned with your buddies