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The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer to others.

How to Win an Argument

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we’re trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct―and often floundering or failing as a result―we’d win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, rhetoric.

Topic – GRO Talks Roundtable 286

How to Do UI Revamps Safely Session 285: February 20, 2026 How do you balance conversion gains with user trust during a UI revamp? Full redesigns are reckless without experimentation. How should engineering manage rollback risk during UI revamps?

GRO Roundtable 285

AI and CRO shortcuts promise speed but risk trust, ethics, and long-term value without skilled human judgment.

Topic – GRO Talks Roundtable 285

Session 285: AI lowering the barrier to building and shipping changes If AI makes shipping trivial, how should teams prevent a flood of poor experiments? Easier shipping may make A/B testing fatigue a product risk. AI-generated changes lacking a measurable hypotheses.

Topic – GRO Talks Roundtable 283

Session 284: How to Deal With Low Traffic When traffic is low, which metrics or methods should guide your experiments? Research methods as alternatives to A/B testing Use simulations and priors, not significance, when traffic is scarce

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: ‘vertical thinking’. This works well in simple situations – but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then?