Unspeakable: The Taboo Topics We Avoid and How to Talk About Them

In business and life we avoid sensitive yet crucial topics at our own peril.Harvard Business School's Christina Wing provides tools for navigating and communicating with clarity and compassion. We live in a world where the list of off-limits topics keeps growing-at work, at home, and even among friends.Age, retirement, succession, failure, money, politics: these subjects feel too sensitive to touch.So we avoid them, sticking to small talk and keeping up appearances.But this comes at a cost. When we can't address the realities shaping our lives and careers, trust erodes and relationships suffer.Is this really the new normal?In Unspeakable: The Taboo Topics We Avoid and How to Talk About Them, Harvard Business School's Christina Wing argues that it shouldn't be.Drawing on decades of experience working with family enterprises and in boardrooms and classrooms, Wing reveals how fear and inhibition undermine performance-and how learning to address and talk about the "unspeakables" can improv