FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Charles Duhigg’s Supercommunicators

From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.   1 The Matching Principle How to Fail at Recruiting Spies If Jim Lawler was being honest with himself, he had to admit that he was terrible

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A Letter to Educators from Kara Alaimo, PhD, Author of Over the Influence

By Kara Alaimo, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University Dear Educators, In the early days of the Internet, The New Yorker ran a cartoon of a dog in front of a computer telling another dog, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The thinking was that the Internet – and then

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Books for National Poetry Month

For National Poetry Month in April, we are sharing poetry collections and books about poetry by authors who have their own stories to tell. These poets delve into history, reimagine the present, examine poetry itself, provide insight on grief and reflection—from traditional poems many know and love to poems and voices that are new and

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