Supercommunicators

Author Charles Duhigg
Narrator Charles Duhigg
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 22 February 2024
Run Time 7 hours and 29 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Advice on careers and achieving success, Business and Management, Business communication and presentation, Interpersonal communication and skills, Popular psychology, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Society and Social Sciences, Soft skills and dealing with other people.

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From the author of the global bestseller, The Power of Habit

Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?

In this groundbreaking new book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine sceptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.

Praise for The Power of Habit:
'Few books become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception.' Financial Times
'A first-rate book - based on an impressive mass of research.' Economist
'Absolutely fascinating.' WIRED

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Critics Review

This is not just a riveting read about how to understand others better. It's also a revealing look at how to be understood. Charles Duhigg delivers a winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.

Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential

Our personal and professional success depend upon our ability to understand and be understood, and yet, we typically leave this up to intuition. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg goes through a mountain of research -- and some riveting stories -- and unearths practical tactics to show that anyone can become a more effective listener, speaker, and even social media poster.

David Epstein, bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene

Charles Duhigg does it again, with a book we all need to read. Using his unique mix of stories and science, he gives us Supercommunicators, a guide to better conversation and deeper human connection. If you want to improve your communication skills at work and in life, this book is the place the start.

Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH and co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of BUILD THE LIFE YOU WANT

This is one of those books that stays with you for days after reading it . . . What makes us happiest in life is the quality of our connections and the relationships we forge . . . and that might just start with being able to understand what someone else is really trying to say. For as Duhigg himself points out, the right conversation at the right moment can change everything.

Daily Mail

Duhigg offers diligently sourced evidence and opinion from psychologists and neuroscientists. He also knows how to tell a story. As he did in his successful book The Power of Habit, he weaves in inspiring anecdotes -- tales of so-called supercommunicators . . . a thoughtful and entertaining book. I even think it could make me a slightly better human.

Sunday Times

[Duhigg] introduces us to the potential power of conversation through his riveting stories . . . Duhigg's excellent book aims to explain how conversations work so we can connect more meaningfully in our relationships . . . As you would want in a book on communication, Duhigg is clear and engaging, linking research with his own interviews as he explores what really happens in successful - or difficult - conversation.

New Scientist

Duhigg's conversations with neurologists, psychologists and negotiation experts led him to learn that superior conversationalists have a lot in common . . . Following his tips to pay closer attention to non-verbal cues got me out of my thoughts, out of my apartment, and off the cursed Slack.

Guardian

I have been spinning like a top since reading The Power of Habit, New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg's fascinating best-seller about how people, businesses and organizations develop the positive routines that make them productive-and happy.

Washington Post

Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.

Financial Times

[The Power of Habit] is a first-rate book - based on an impressive mass of research, written in a lively style and providing just the right balance of intellectual seriousness with practical advice on how to break our bad habits.

Economist

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