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I learn something every time I listen to this book.

Read during #RushAThon & for my 301 Leadership Foundation class. Coming off a very dry & technical Organizational Development book, this was a relief. It‘s interesting & readable & a good look at a businessperson & company succeeding by putting their people first. My group all gave it a thumbs up.

My second Daniel Pink book. I have liked the both. In this one he revisited the accepted ideas about selling and updated them for our current situations. It helped me rethink old ways of thinking and start considering new things. Creative book. Well written and engaging.

4✨This was a great self help style book. How to use general kindness and respect for others to be a better person and spread kindness. Definitely would recommend to anyone!

This was a book I read for work and it has some interesting aspects about how to influence different groups of people that you work with. I don't recommend listening to the audiobook it was a slog to get through.

A soft pick. Definitely interesting and insightful, but also a bit long winded, so I would sometimes lose the overall point. But overall, a good look at how influence has worked for anyone who wants to influence others and/or prevent themselves from being exploited by unscrupulous others. It may also make you question whether any of your decisions (even your own self-conception) were actually of your own making 🤨🧐😟

#catsoflitsy

“It is difficult to steel ourselves cognitively against scarcity pressures because they have an emotion-arousing quality that makes thinking difficult. In defense, we might try to be alert to a rush of arousal in situations involving scarcity. Once alerted, we can take steps to calm the arousal and assess the merits of the opportunity in terms of why we want it.”

“. . . we should be alert to the trust-enhancing tactic in which communicators first provide mildly negative information about themselves. Through this strategy, they create a perception of honesty that makes all subsequent information seem more believable to observers.”

Reading a book about influence. The factor encouraging most to keep reading rather than doing something like, idk, actually getting something for supper, is Dahlia being very snuggly on my lap #catsoflitsy #reciprocatinghersnuggles #veryinfluentialcat

🎧 Communications & social psychology taught by a self proclaimed recovering awkward person.

Interesting & humorous. Expertly read by the author.

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