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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A humanities professor walks into a bar and begins an act of hermeneutical exegesis. He does not have a parrot on his shoulder. He is not sitting next to a dwarf. The ...

Humor is a secret weapon in business and life. That is the subtitle of Humor, Seriously, a book by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. As consultants and business school professors, Aaker and Bagdonas ...

I have personally used humor for productivity and team building and as a tool to boost creativity. In my consulting work, I've witnessed the transformative power of humor: A team working 60- to ...

Laughter also has social value: it promotes unity, gets at truths, allows us to broach tough subjects. Research has even shown that people who make us laugh are more influential and easier to forgive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fortunately, you don’t have to tell sidesplitting jokes to make humor work for you. You can learn to think like a comedian instead ...

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