Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

I helped you with the Smith Project. Cialdini states that human beings are wired to return favors and pay back debts. This is a common approach used when negotiating. Sometimes it’s the best way to influence a person to take action. “ I need your help with the new product introduction.” Dr. Robert B.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

Tell them that you are really excited because you are working on a project, book, idea about X, Y, and Z. Another thing that you can do is talked about quite a bit by Robert Cialdini, eminent psychologist, and Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford School of Business. You know the question is going to be asked. Be prepared!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Often, she’d meet them initially at company meetings or through project work; if the suggestion to have lunch together didn’t arise naturally, she’d tell them about her project, and they were almost always intrigued enough to join her.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

One asked if he was working on a "class project," while another suggested he "thank his parents" for sending him to graduate school (he paid his own way). "When I contact leaders in my industry, they almost always agree to talk," he told me. But some have been treating me as if I were an undergrad."

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In his book entitled Influence by Robert Cialdini he explains that one of the most influential words in the English language is ‘because’. For each milestone, indicate the role of the stakeholder: Responsible: for the task/problem/project. List tasks/milestones down the left column. Accountable: has authority to sign off.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

I recently got a phone call asking about Mike, a grad student I'd hired for a video project last year. Indeed, psychologist Robert Cialdini suggests that asking for favors can actually be a powerful way to get people to like you better, because they become invested in your success. Have you done business with him?"

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