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The Serendipity Fund: The Secret to Effective Leadership and a Successful Career

You don’t succeed in one big moment. Success is a collection of smaller moments. Moments of levity when the right person starts to like you. Moments of serendipity when you ask the right question. Once these small moments fall into your lap, it’s the next choice, and the next choice—when you ask the follow-up questions—that lead to ultimate success. At least, that’s what this episode’s guests of Think Fast, Talk Smart say about effective leadership. Alison Wood Brooks and Naomi Bagdonas are good friends of the show. Alison is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Helman Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. Naomi runs a consulting company and has helped CEOs and celebrities with appearances on Saturday Night Live and The Today Show. They’re here to coach you on asking more questions and using humor in conversations. In this episode, they join host Matt Abrahams to discuss: • Advice on asking more questions • The secret power of asking follow-up questions in building connections • Leadership principles that guide the greatest leaders • The importance of leaving some room for serendipity • What is levity, and how can you be more open to joy? • The importance of pushing yourself to take risks by inviting levity and asking more questions. Make sure you are taking notes when Naomi brings up the concept of a 'Serendipity Fund'. It will change both your mindset AND your budget! Key Quotes • “A lot of what makes people good conversationalists, not just levity, but including levity, but even asking questions or switching topics, it's these little fleeting moments that require risk taking and a little bit of courage.” – Alison Wood Brooks (13:07) • “If someone starts conversation with me and they're like, oh gosh, okay, this person is assessing me and my humor and my levity. And that pressure is the most surefire way to kill someone's joy and levity. And so I spend a lot of time thinking about, ‘how do I create a really safe space where this person's goof can come out?’” – Naomi Bagdonas (16:19) Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:53 Takeaways from Alison’s Book 03:27 Advice About Asking Questions 05:42 Guiding Principles of Leadership 08:09 What is Levity? 12:07 Pushing Yourself to Create Levity Moments 13:45 Questions Matt Should Have Asked 19:31 Conclusion Episode References: Alison Wood Brooks: https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/a... Alison’s Book: https://fastersmarter.io/talk/ Naomi Bagdonas: https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/n... Naomi’s Book: http://fastersmarter.io/humorseriously Relevant Links: https://www.fastersmarter.io/13-make-... https://www.fastersmarter.io/73-liste... https://www.fastersmarter.io/89-liste... https://www.fastersmarter.io/169-dont... Connect: Premium Signup: https://www.fastersmarter.io/premium/ Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io LinkedIn: (  / think-fast-talk-smart  ) Instagram (  / thinkfasttalksmart  ) YouTube (   / @thinkfasttalksmart  ) Matt Abrahams on LinkedIn (  / maabrahams  )