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Although I have been working in and with the field of influence for many years, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that influence, or at least the importance of influence in the business world, is a modern phenomenon. Possibly highlighted to the... Continue Reading
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As I sit down to write this article, the Winter Olympics are underway. Athletes from across the world will be straining every muscle to win a coveted gold medal and get their names etched into the history books for the rest of time.
Unfortunately, when... Continue Reading
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In the first installment of this article on organizational culture, we looked at the power culture, the role culture plays and how to gain influence in each. Today we move to the final two cultures of Charles Handy’s seminal model: task culture and... Continue Reading
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Influence and authority are two critical components that can and will affect your success in life, both in your career and within your personal life. Authority is the equivalent of a powerful diesel engine, that can deliver results by brute force, but... Continue Reading
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If you’ve seen the recent pictures of the hurricanes that hit Texas, Florida or Puerto Rico, you realize that water has immense power. It rushes everywhere and subsumes everything under its wake.
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In Chapter 4 of my upcoming book on influence, I discuss Maslow’s six needs. One of these core needs is the need for certainty. Our brains need it to assimilate information. In order to do this, we need a degree of certainty. Here are some additional... Continue Reading
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In my new book that is in the works even as I write this blog, I cover five non-negotiable characteristics that organizations seek.
Here is the first:
Characteristic #1: Hard Working = Smart Working
At the top of the hard working list is... Continue Reading
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We have for too long now believed that influence is the practice of what we “do” to people. We persuade them. We negotiate with them. We manipulate them. We intimidate them. We coerce them. We feel if we get them to do what we want, we are influential.... Continue Reading
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