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Automatic Influence: How Your Perception Influences Everything You Do

Leading Blog

Our perceptions automatically influence our feeling, and they in turn, automatically influence our actions. Erik Van Alstine takes us through the various ways the See-Feel-Act Progression influences everything we do in Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life. We don’t just listen to be polite.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). We all have the potential to have a lot more +influence if we address the common obstacles that interfere with achieving our +influence attempts. Most endeavors struggle with a number of challenges — technical, social, and political.

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Navigating Office Politics: Building a Successful Career Through Savvy Behaviors.

Rich Gee Group

Office politics, the art of influencing others to achieve goals within the workplace, is a subject that often evokes strong reactions. However, another side to this coin is one where "good political behavior" can propel your career forward. In contrast, "bad political behavior" can be detrimental.

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Politics Influences How We Perceive Obese People

The Horizons Tracker

New research from the University of Bristol reminds us, however, that our views on the topic are far from uniform, and are instead heavily linked with our political views. “Tackling weight stigma—and other kinds of stigma—may be more effective if we recognize these links, and acknowledge the political context in which stigma happens.”

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Media Preferences Shape Our Political Views

The Horizons Tracker

Does the media influence people’s political views in a divided country? These findings challenge common ideas about how polarized Americans’ media habits are and make us question the use of survey data when studying the impact of political media.

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Do Gender Norms Influence Political Engagement?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from the University of Bologna illustrates how these roles influence the subsequent engagement with politics of children as they get older. Political engagement. This in turn makes boys more confident both in expressing their political views and then defending them.

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The Politics of Promotion

Lead Change Blog

Although being savvy about office politics is important for both genders, unconscious bias and stereotypes create special challenges for women. Too often, they’re left outside of the circles of power and influence where decisions are made that affect their careers. Find them here.

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