In this podcast episode, Carmine Gallo, a renowned communication coach for the world’s most admired brands, shares valuable insights on effective communication. Drawing from his experience as a Harvard instructor, bestselling author, and leadership advisor, Gallo emphasizes that great communicators are made, not born. He offers invaluable communication strategies and tips that focus on the critical pillars of simplicity, clarity, and precision, enabling anyone to improve their communication skills. Whether you are a business leader or simply looking to improve your communication skills at home, this is a must-listen episode.
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Episode 1 Quotable moments:
02:02 “When I was researching a book on Bezos. The first thing he said is, Carmine, you've gotta dig into those shareholder letters. He said, those letters should be taught to every business student in the country. And then he added, if I were 20 years younger, I'd teach the class myself.”
3:08 “Writing and communication is a skill. And like any skill. You can sharpen it with time. It can be developed over time. So I like to say that great communicators are made not born. Like any skill, you can improve. Jeff Bezos certainly did. If you look at the first 10 years of letters that he wrote about Amazon, they kind of scored around a 10th-grade level, some college level, so they were a little confusing, but they had some really great words of wisdom.”
4:20 “Whether it's writing, public speaking, giving presentations, anything that has to do with leadership and communication, we can all get better at it. We can all improve.”
6:08 “Use short words to talk about hard things. As Amazon grew in complexity, as Amazon added more than a million employees and got into cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the writing that Bezos did grew shorter and simpler.”
8:33 “Because we're overthinking it. We have to sound smart. Well, that, I guess means using longer words. And yet the counterintuitive secret of success is the more confident you are and the better you understand a concept, you're more likely to simplify it for your audience. It's counterintuitive, but I think it's a very powerful concept that anyone can use.”

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