
Unlock the neuroscience of powerful communication with Judith Glaser's "Conversational Intelligence," featured in Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. What separates routine exchanges from transformative dialogues? Discover the C-IQ framework that top leaders use to build trust and drive unprecedented collaboration.
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Have you ever watched a simple conversation spiral into disaster before your eyes? One moment you're discussing project deadlines, the next you're locked in a battle of wills, hearts racing, defenses up. What just happened? The answer lies not in what was said, but in what happened inside your brain the moment threat replaced trust. Judith E. Glaser spent three decades unraveling this mystery, discovering that our conversations aren't just exchanges of words-they're neurochemical events that physically reshape our brains and bodies. When she coached Anthony, a difficult client, their relationship deteriorated despite her expertise. She saw him as arrogant and impossible; he likely saw her as incompetent. They created competing mental movies where each played the villain in the other's story, ultimately "firing each other" in mutual failure. This wasn't a communication problem-it was a brain problem. Within .07 seconds of contact, our bodies detect electrical signals from others up to ten feet away, triggering instant friend-or-foe assessments. When conversations threaten us, the amygdala hijacks our executive functions, flooding us with cortisol that lingers for 26 hours. We stop listening to understand and start defending our territory. The gap between what we intend and what others experience becomes a chasm where relationships fall and die.