When Your Words Sound Smooth But Mean Nothing

Meta-Cast, an agile podcast by Josh Anderson

May 4, 202626:34Technology

Bob Galen and Josh Anderson dig into one of the most quietly destructive habits in leadership communication. You know the feeling. You sit through a thirty minute all hands, and when it ends, you cannot answer the simple...

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