Interview with Erica Dhawan, author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance
Erica Dhawan, author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance recommends an excellent range of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Erica's book:
Review from Book Depository:
The book we all read right now: the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are.
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Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance
Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of 'oops sorry no you go' and 'can you hear me?!' Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other?
Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible - or are they? In Digital Body Language, Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. In real life, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Online, reading carefully is the new listening. Writing clearly is the new empathy. And a phone or video call is worth a thousand emails.
Digital Body Language will turn your daily misunderstandings into a set of collectively understood laws that foster connection, no matter the distance. Dhawan investigates a wide array of exchanges-from large conferences and video meetings to daily emails, texts, IMs, and conference calls-and offers insights and solutions to build trust and clarity to anyone in our ever changing world.
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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. It’s the best book I’ve read that really explores the gray areas of ethics and morals.
Review From Book Depository:
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control - from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.
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The 48 Laws of Power
In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), others teach the value of confidence ("Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness"), and many recommend absolute self-preservation ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Choose Yourself by James Altucher. I would rate it 8/10 for Altucher’s humorous writing style, insightful business tips, and fresh perspective on what it takes to be successful in today’s economy.
Review from Book Depository:
The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for "security," everything we thought was "safe," no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It's all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself.
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Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
New tools and economic forces have emerged to make it possible for individuals to create art, make millions of dollars and change the world without "help." More and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real inward success (personal happiness and health) and outward success (fulfilling work and wealth). This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples-including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher's own heartbreaking and inspiring story-Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.
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Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss. I read it for the first time over thirty years ago and I still find it wise, inspirational, and entertaining in just fifty-six pages.
Review From Book Depository:
Celebrate life's ups and downs in this gorgeous paperback edition of the bestselling Dr. Seuss classic!
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
For more than thirty years, this Dr. Seuss classic has carried us through life's ups and downs - from fun times and triumphs, to lurches and slumps!
Take an entertaining look at the adventures life has in store for all of us in this very special paperback edition of the beloved classic.
The perfect gift for every moment in life, from graduations, weddings and birthdays, to those when you just need a little lift.
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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
I prefer reading paperback books, but I also enjoy listening to audiobooks from time to time!
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Barnes and Noble at Union Square for its unmatched lively and welcoming atmosphere.
Many thanks to Erica for recommending an excellent range of books! Please don't forget to check out Erica's book Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.
Daryl
Image Copyrights: HarperCollins Publishers (Digital Body Language, Oh The Places You'll Go!), Penguin Putnam Inc (The 48 Laws of Power), Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (Choose Yourself!).
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