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

[@dingleberry1297]

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

[@hayyaanbaig]

SAAAAME!!

[@rahilmirza5620]

US 🙂

[@zaczachariah4982]

Nice. Well done

[@ditoiuc]

LOL

[@Aliphbay]

are you serious? ;)

[@smallsteps3801]

"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.

[@kungfudunk94]

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

[@anandm4110]

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

[@ThomasBarrios]

This video deserves 7,5 billion views 😁

[@gsgomezintl]

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

[@Rui_Bread]

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

[@derryjames2295]

Just what I was looking for! Merci!

[@opeyemipraise6396]

Humor has never been so serious before...

[@axem.8338]

Michael Scott would be so happy.

[@kimingay6244]

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

[@optomswetapatel]

Such a refreshing take .. loved it :)

[@coryhall8864]

I wanna be friends with all these professors

[@mohsinahmed7569]

Thank you

[@AgilPaulwin]

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

[@gaurav7047]

I found it funny enough.

[@314159265352]

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

[@FBAagent]

Went to SF and love the humour of people there

[@stephensun8041]

@@FBAagent good joke

[@waffrentrager8216]

Well its quite odd isn’t it?

[@anurupasaha8051]

so sweet omg🤣💖

[@berhamlatif7457]

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

[@vinodnarayanswamy]

Could anyone suggest a book on this topic ?

[@satvikpandey8485]

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

[@RDC6666]

Life is short to take too seriously 😊

[@eleonoraformatoneeszczepan8807]

Hey, a comment section ... good stuff.

[@eric_meira]

Yes 😸

[@jonasfrancisco7579]

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

[@whatever2668]

Haha so funny

[@rich6965]

Spark master tape ngaf about a b

[@bettyboughtabitofbetterbut428]

Yours handsome Me

[@skywalkn297]

just get really stoned with your buddies

[@asdollahmirza5087]

fluff

[@optimize.]

Great ideas and I’m with you right up until your rules for pre-checking and boxing in your humor: these are clearly terrible and both practically and philosophically wrong. “When people can’t regulate their own emotions, they seek to control other people’s behavior.” Good humor is always a form of criticism. What we need is stronger, more resilient people, whose feelings aren’t so easily hurt, not weaker humor. -How will my joke make other people feel? > That’s literally the opposite of what you should do. 1) You aren’t aren’t responsible for other peoples feelings; 2) Different people will have different emotional responses to the same words; 3) Don’t make fun of people of lower status?? Please gtfo with this post-modernist woke nonsense. Viewing life through the incredibly oversimplified lens of high- and low-status creates false dichotomies and creates an imaginary victim role for some groups over others.

[@omarley6584]

I love this, sounds like Dave Chappelle 🤣 😂

[@prakashtaurion]

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

[@hossein232]

We need a course for humour? This is not it. Completely missed the point of why children and old people laugh more. They don't really think about it. It happens naturally. There is actually a course for humour? Satire