April 2023
Beginner to intermediate
1400 pages
20h 20m
English
2
by Francesca Gino
You’re giving a presentation on the company’s strategic direction when one of your colleagues interrupts you. You pause, address his question, and continue with your point—until he interrupts again. Sound familiar?
All of us have known colleagues, friends, or romantic partners who seem unable to let us finish a sentence. How do you handle them effectively? There are a number of tactics. But it is important to understand when and why people interrupt others.
Here are some of the aspects to consider about what may be driving people to interrupt others.
At the beginning of my relationship with my husband, I constantly interrupted ...