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Humor and humanity are the best ways to break the ice and remove roadblocks.
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Experiments show that the use of fabricated merriment leads audiences to laugh more frequently and longer, as well as to rate humorous material funnier.
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…once you recognize the importance of gatekeepers, and turn them into allies with respect, humor, and compassion, there will be few gates that aren’t open to you.
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If your boss has your back, takes responsibility instead of blaming others, encourages your efforts but also gets out of your way, and displays a sense of human rather than a raging tempter, you’re probably in a good place. If your boss is the opposite, watch out – and maybe get out.
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Humor also is a safe way of exploring negative situations – often relying on shock or on setting the audience off balance in some way.
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…to motivate you have to arouse people emotionally through stories, play, humor, and other means…
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The funnier you are, the more people will think you’re smart because it takes intelligence to be funny.
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…humor can be a clarifying organizational elixir.
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…humor can be a cohesive force in organizations – as anyone who’s ever traded jokes at the water cooler or laughed over lunch with colleagues understands.
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It’s time to rescue humor from its status as mere entertainment and recognize it for what it is – a sophisticated and peculiarly human form of intelligence that can’t be replicated by computers…
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