Most advice on making people take you seriously rests on shaky ground: the famous power pose largely failed to replicate and its lead author disavowed it, while research finds that in groups talking time predicts perceived leadership more than the quality of what you say

The advice on how to make people take you seriously tends to arrive with great confidence and very little evidence. One of the tactics does not work at all, and one of the things that genuinely does work is uncomfortably shallow. The pose that did not hold upStart with the most famous piece of advice in the category. The shallow thing that does workIf posture is overrated, one of the real drivers is almost embarrassingly basic. And keep enough humility to remember the flip side, that the person talking most, sometimes you, is not automatically the one who is right.