Author:Chris St. Hilaire,Lynette Padwa
You can persuade anyone to do or think just about anything...
Award-winning message strategist Chris St. Hilaire shares his 27 powerful strategies to help you become the master of communication and persuasion. Thought-provoking and refreshingly simple, he shows that by making some subtle changes to how you listen and communicate, you can easily bring others round to your point of view. Learn how to:
·Win people over who disagree or are indifferent
·Steer conversations with silence and touch
·Use information to strengthen your point
·Deal effectively with opposition and bad ideas
Whether you want to get someone to hire you, convince a room of sceptics or become a better manager, 27 Powers of Persuasion will help you win people over, influence others and get the results you need.
[A] useful primer in how to become a more confident and skilled businessperson.
—— Orange Coast MagazineI'm enthusiastic about [St. Hilaire's] approach to persuasion, which is very simple, and which is fundamentally about positivity: making other people feel good about themselves makes them feel good about you.
—— Charles Purdy, Monster.com Jobs Blog27 Powers of Persuasion offers readers some powerful new ideas on how to get others to follow you."
—— CNBCSt. Hilaire provides...interesting and useful methods for presenting ideas.... He's practical...though he very wisely recognizes how humans think and act. His anecdotes are apt and instructional..., and show how executives and others can present their thoughts in ways that are palatable to others without necessarily compromising or losing integrity.
—— Miami HeraldThe result of Delves Broughton's time there is this funny and revealing insider's view, revealing precisely because he is genuinely fascinated by the world of business, and his fascination is infectious
—— The Sunday TimesHe sets the scene brilliantly, capturing an essence of HBS that is part cult, part psychological morass, part hothouse... For anyone planning to attend this remarkable institution, Delves Broughton's book is invaluable... A quite brilliant book
—— Simon Heffer , Literary ReviewDelves Broughton sketches out the Harvard curriculum and his fellow travellers with skill and wit... His work is a handy introduction for those who crave the mega-bucks and mega-power that HBS brings many of its graduates. But while it is not the kind of book that non-business readers will naturally reach for, it deserves a broader audience
—— The TimesA useful primer for anyone considering a similar path, or just curious as to how Harvard churns out all those gleaming little masters of the universe
—— Washington PostA particularly absorbing and entertaining read
—— Financial TimesA cautionary tale for those who believe that the grass - and their future paycheck - would be greener if only they could jump the fence into the rarefied world of the Masters of Business Administration
—— New York TimesOriginal, clever, funny - and full of insights into one of the most influential insitutions in the world
—— George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the ExchequerWhat They Teach You...' is a hilarious, perceptive and unflinching account of the strange world of Harvard Business School, its students and the wider world of business which they are set to dominate. It is the Liar's Poker of the MBA set. Destined to become a classic
—— Albert Read, General Manager of Conde NastInformative, wry, and well-written, this book will make rewarding and pleasurable reading for anybody wishing to understand why business is the way it is.
—— John Cassidy, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Dot.ConKirkpatrick's amazing reporting details what happens when a hacker culture turns into a multi-billion-dollar firm. Mark Zuckerberg sought to maintain that hacker energy, and it's fascinating to hear what resulted
—— Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired and author of The Long TailEngrossing. . . . A detailed and scrupulously fair history of [Facebook]
—— Rich Jaroslovsky , Bloomberg Businessweek