Is Listening an Endangered Skill? – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review
Is listening important? “Yes, of course,” you say. But then why would anyone pay thousands of dollars to hear someone speak, and then not listen?
I recently attended the PopTech conference in Camden, Maine, a mind-bending affair attended by several hundred idea junkies, each of whom paid several thousand dollars to (ostensibly) hear what really smart people like Daniel Goleman, Dan Ariely, and Michael Pollan had to say.
Is Listening an Endangered Skill? – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review