Even the most social people occasionally have difficulty getting a conversation going, resorting to basic, boring questions ...

Make conversations less awkward with this easy tactic. Yes-or-no questions keep conversations from settling into a good flow—or end it before it really starts. The best conversation starters invite ...

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...