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Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (Audio CD)
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Switzler
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Persuasion, Influence, Change, Leadership |
| Market price: ¥ 358.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Claiming everyone can be an influencer, the author shows to us in an easy-to-understand way "the full array of strategies that successful influencers use every day to change lifelong habits and bring about improvements." |
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Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
AN INSTANT CLASSIC! Whether you're leading change or changing your life, this book delivers. |
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Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
Ideas can change the world-but only when coupled with influence-the ability to change hearts, minds and behavior. This book provides a practical approach to lead change and empower us all to make a difference or a change in society. |
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Sidney Taurel, chairman & chief executive officer, Eli Lilly and Companyprovi, USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
Influencing human behavior is one of the most difficult challenges faced by leaders. This book provides powerful insight into how to make behavior change that will last. |
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Deborah Norville, anchor of "Inside Edition" and bestselling author, USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
If you are truly motivated to make productive changes in your life, don't put down this book until you reach the last page. Whether dealing with a recalcitrant teen, doggedly resistant co-workers, or a personal frustration that 'no one ever wants to hear my view,' Influencer can help guide in making the changes that put you in the driver's seat. |
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Cami (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
This material is universal. The authors define twelve skills that folks should focus on if they hope to be able to improve circumstances around them. Even though I do not have a particular interest in business, I still found this information very helpful. I found it applied to the day-to-day management of life from parenting to charity work to employment.
After reading many self-help books, I find some better able to detail core concepts about change and managment than others. This one does a fine job. The authors point out how ideas of motivation and ability can either kill or escalate one's influence. It's great to realize what factors generate social and individual change.
I also appreciated the examples. I liked the examples of large scale social change. The examples of criminal reform and erradicating disease taught me a couple of things. First, individual behavior can create large-scale, critical change and secondly, because that principle holds true, I may have the ability to influence those around me if I choose. This is practical, useful information is for anyone trying to perform well at their job, balance family demands or simply survive soccer carpool. I found this information really, very helpful. |
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Maven (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
I read the book with a couple areas in my life in mind wherein I'd like to make changes and I wasn't disappointed. While the authors presented no quick fixes (a realistic approach), I did come away with with a better understanding of the forces that make change difficult. No only that, by the end of the book I felt equipped with the the know-how to harness these same forces to make change in my life. My influence quotient was definitely bolstered by this read.
The fact that the book was written in an engaging style and laden with interesting stories and studies was an added bonus. |
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Sasquatch (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
After consuming both "Crucial Conversations" and "Crucial Confrontations", this new book, "Influencer", was like the rack of lamb added to the baked potato, asparagus, and sourdough bread. After 40 years in the consumer packaged goods industry, I find myself quite often selected to sit on committees that develop policy or solve problems. I sit in rooms filled with young guns and old coots that go nose to nose with each other pitching their version of the "answer". What do you do when the testosterone, pride, and personal agendas have dissipated and all you have left is the same old problem steaming there in the middle of the table? This book gave me a roadmap, a compass, and a worksheet to help me provide the positive influence to - at least sometimes - cure the illness instead of bandaging the wound. I would suggest that anyone on any level read this book and start fixing the leaks in their lives instead of applying patches.
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Andrew (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
I thought that this book was great. It nicely packages a bunch of good and important info not readily available elsewhere (some of which stems from the authors' own work), and it tells you how to apply this info. It's not simply content with leaving you amazed at all the sexy info/research. It tells you what to do with it.
A very rudimentary outline is (a) it presents a framework/plan for how to go about producing change (of basically any form) in the first couple chapters. For instance, it shows you how to break down complex and confusing problems into more manageable, precise problems (e.g. finding the "vital behaviors"). And (b) in the main body, it presents various strategies for getting these problems solved (i.e. generating positive influence), along with a framework to organize these strategies. Here is where you can create your specific plan of attack (e.g. select a domain of influence and see what the research has shown about how to go about influence within this domain). Finally, interspersed throughout are a bunch of cool examples from people who have been successful at changing badness into goodness. The end product is a compendium of what have to be some of the best ideas out there for producing change. Moreover, these ideas are presented in a step-by-step, organized manner.
However, I think it should be noted that the major strength was not a set of task-specific techniques, but instead, the presentation of a framework for organizing and selecting which specific techniques will work best. The book promises to give you the "power to change anything", and the plan they give you is correspondingly general. It's not really a diet book or a book focused on specific persuasion techniques, and they don't present a set of results supporting public policy A over public policy B. What they present instead is a (research supported) plan to follow for organizing and selecting the set of specific techniques that will best get the job done. And a broad perspective like this is especially helpful in our kind of information-overload world.
Basically, it combines the "amazing research tales" of Blink with a real plan for application. And in so doing, it delivers in a very realistic way on what it promises in the title. It presents what has to be one of the best general schemes out there for trying to effect change. |
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Katie Osborne (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
Yes, you heard me right. According to the authors of this book the prayer is a trap and I think I agree with them. The prayer reads:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
When Reinhold Niebuhr wrote these lines over six decades ago, I'm sure he didn't think his prayer would give solace to those would give up. But that's exactly what his prayer seems to encourage, giving up. Instead on accepting things one cannot change, one should try and make a difference, one should have the wisdom to try and make a difference. If everybody accepted the things they thought they couldn't change, the world would be a pretty dismal place.
Once the authors take their readers past the Serenity Trap, they give plenty of examples of people who didn't accept the things they couldn't change, instead they changed them. The authors not only give good examples of how an Influencer (someone who instigates change) works, but they show you how to be an influencer as well. And if I have any influence over you, dear reader, I'd like to influence you to order this book, you won't be disappointed.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne |
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Carpenter (MSL quote), USA
<2007-12-19 00:00>
Influencer changed the way I look at the world. More particularly, it changed the way I look at the problems I face in MY world and opened me to options of how I can change those problems. People spend a lot of time thinking in terms of how to motivate people only from the standpoint of their personal motivation - they aren't doing what you want because they don't care, they're lazy, the don't respect me, etc. The emphasis on the power of social and environmental conditions was revelatory. I've stopped thinking about challenges as inevitable and think more in terms of how I can approach tough issues differently.
The case studies are fabulous and inspiring. I was somewhat distracted that the cases weren't presented start to finish, but as I progressed through the book I understood the reasoning. The authors illustrate principles that build, so the cases wouldn't have demonstrated those points with a start-to-finish recitation at the beginning of the book. I'm ready to read the book again, which will string together the cases and reinforce the key points of the book. |
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