Why great leaders take humor seriously | Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There's a mistaken belief in today's working world that leaders need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. The research tells a different story. Based on the course they teach at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, behavioral scientist Jennifer Aaker and corporate strategist Naomi Bagdonas delve into the surprising power of humor: why it's a secret weapon to build bonds, power, creativity and resilience -- and how we can all have more of it.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:06.8	In high school, I was really stressed between academics, sports, and the many things on my
0:13.3	plate as a teen, I felt the pressure.
0:16.6	But you know what kept me in my classmate's sane laughter.
0:21.6	The best evidence of this is my high school yearbook, which was pretty much a roast.
0:26.9	Here's this section where my classmates would come up with funny statements that captured
0:30.7	our present and future selves.
0:33.4	What did they write for me?
0:36.2	Dream.
0:37.2	Best Dressed.
0:39.0	Reality.
0:40.0	Most stressed.
0:41.6	Can you see her in a Baja?
0:43.9	Best kept secret?
0:44.9	She's a shoplifter.
0:46.5	Perfect mate, Michael Jordan.
0:49.4	Herd saying, I'm laughing and crying at the same time.
0:52.7	Theme song, don't funk with the moh.
0:55.6	We'll probably end up advertising air Jordans.
0:59.9	Pretty hilarious, and what sticks out to me and recalling this is, heard saying, I'm
1:05.0	laughing and crying at the same time.
1:08.0	I said that often.
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