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Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School. She studies the behavioral science of conversation, teaches an award-winning course in the MBA curriculum called TALK, and chairs a program for executives called Communicating for Impact. She was named a Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professor by Poets & Quants.

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“The key to good conversation isn’t knowing, but learning. It’s about being interested (in your partner), not interesting.”
― Alison Wood Brooks, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

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“To apologize well, we can’t make it about ourselves. Instead, we should focus on our partner’s feelings in the moment—and stay on the topic at hand—without extrapolating to other issues or clapping back with our own frustrations. An apology should be an expression of empathy—a way to say “I realize something bad happened to you, or something has upset you, and I’m sorry.”
― Alison Wood Brooks, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

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“A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.” —Kurt Vonnegut”
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