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Practicing the Law of Reciprocity

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Personal Branding for Introverts

Harvard Business Review

Yet I’m convinced it’s possible to be real about building connections and developing our personal brands, while still respecting our natural tendencies. In other words, you can make yourself professionally indispensable if you develop connections that enable you to break through silos, and identify and surmount knowledge gaps.

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Getting People to Believe in Something They Can’t Yet Imagine

Harvard Business Review

Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? Traditional influencing theory — as expounded, for example, by Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — offers “invoking authority” as a way to persuade others to support things that are new to them.

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New Managers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Express Their Emotions

Harvard Business Review

We never want to lose our composure, so we develop strategies for keeping a professional face on. Robert Cialdini identified six principles of persuasion that can be used in any setting. ” We respect authority: “This message comes directly from the CEO, so it’s a priority.”

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

Handwritten thank-you notes from the CEO proudly adorned her wall. ” CEO biographies and leadership literature perpetuate this “just world” myth. Robert Cialdini’s book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion shows the tremendous benefits to understanding social psychology. What happened?

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How to Give Negative Feedback When Your Organization Is “Nice”

Harvard Business Review

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Building candor and feedback into any culture is challenging, but this CEO had a particularly difficult set of issues to address because the predominant descriptors of his current culture are nice, respectful, cordial, warm, relationship-focused, and calm.

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7 Ways to Capture Someone’s Attention

Harvard Business Review

This is because we have an innate need to figure out whether the incident signals a threat or a positive development. Consumers consistently rate experts as the most trusted spokespeople , more than CEOs or celebrities. This is a phenomenon Dr. Robert Cialdini calls “directed deference.”