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Increase the Odds of Achieving Your Goals by Setting Them with Your Spouse

Harvard Business Review

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive , authors Robert Cialdini, Noah Goldstein, and Steve Martin explain how making an active commitment directly affects action. This requires recognizing that constructive feedback can be hard to hear from a partner, and letting go of some ego and pride.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Such relationships form the basis of an executive's ability to influence and persuade others and deal constructively with conflict and the differences of opinion that inevitably arise in fast-paced organizations.