109. Simplify! How to Communicate Complex Ideas Simply and Effectively

You said it. But did they hear it? For Frances Frei, communication is about saying things simply enough for an audience to truly understand.
As a professor of technology and operations management at Harvard Business School, Frei knows that shaping culture within organizations requires communicating in ways that influence how people think and act. The problem for many leaders, she says, is that when we “understand something deeply, we describe it in a complicated way. If you want broad influence and persuasion, we have to understand it really deeply. And then describe it in a simple and compelling enough way that others can take action.”
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Frei and host Matt Abrahams explore strategies for simpler communication, building and maintaining trust, and celebrating diverse perspectives within our teams. They also discuss takeaways from Frei's latest book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leaders' Guide to Solving Hard Problems (store.hbr.org/product/move-fa....
More resources:
For a transcript of this episode, visit our website (www.gsb.stanford.edu/business....
Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leaders' Guide to Solving Hard Problems (store.hbr.org/product/move-fa...)
Fixable (www.ted.com/podcasts/fixable), a podcast with Anne Francis and Frances Frei

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Past: Is experience. Present: Is experiment. Future: Is expectation. Use your experience in your experiment to achieve your expectation.

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I really like this episode, especially finding the commonalities part. I wonder how we can improve that in a work settings where there are staff and colleagues coming from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

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Best way to express DEI? Forgive me if I don’t buy in.

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How to reflect about others perspectives? I wonder what's about my communication that's getting in the way of them?

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It a shame the interviewer take it like a therapy exchange instead of letting the person express freely without cutting her each time with his experience! Very annoying. Can someone tell me again the name of the comedian please?

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Lol. I think hes just trying to be nice doing something like appreciating every time she says something cool. The comedians are Wanda Sykes and Kathleen Madigan

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