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Jul 2020
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16. Quick Thinks: How to Craft Your Body...

Matt Abrahams, Think Fast Talk Smart
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Knowing what to say to a skeptical audience is paramount, but how can your body language communicate empathy, openness, and power? 

In this Quick Thinks episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, we revisit Matt Abrahams’s conversation with Stanford GSB lecturer Burt Alper about how to keep body language in mind when it comes to handling objections.  


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