Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

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An INFLUENCER motivates others to change.

This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.

Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools and techniques of the world's most influential people.

But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You'll be taught each and every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You'll learn how to:

Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where you'll see how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You'll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You'll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly and significantly-while others have failed miserably.

No matter who you are, or what you do, you'll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better, even save lives. The sky is the limit…for an Influencer.

Are you an Influencer ?

Find out at www.influencerbook.com

”You don't have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately, social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson and his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging, example-rich book. The key message is hardly new, but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way and facilitate, not manage, the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences, restructured environments, peer pressure, and frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them, not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits and choose to be mere facilitators.”-John T. Landry, Harvard Business Review

What Customers Say About Influencer: The Power to Change Anything:

The number of references to the author's other book ("Crucial Conversations") implies that one should read that book also - a good marketing ploy for VitalSmarts - but I don't think I will bite. Now i must attempt to influence my colleague that what that colleague is doing is equally scatterbrained and has nothing to do with the book. I agree with other comments here that the book neither influences me nor provides any advancement to Dale Carnegie's course/book on influence. So - I got this book at full price because one of my management colleagues spoke highly of it and started to "use the concepts" at work. No need to throw good money after bad. Guess what. The process used was quite disjointed and I felt I had to buy the book to understand the process. Someone definitely has a problem with "reading comprehension" (page 31) because this book is scatterbrained - interweaving stories with suggestions.

Love this book. A must read. This book provides a simple framework based on solid research in a very readable format.

Wish they would have gone into more depth on a few of the case examples but o well.I just think they could have taught me a lot more with all those pages. Influencer (by the same authors) is better than Confrontations but no where near as good as Conversations.The book does excel at using real life examples and they are both enjoyable to read and helpful in understanding the point. I learned some but not nearly enough. I read Crucial Conversations and LOVED it. I read Crucial Confrontations and put it down only 1/3 of the way through.

Until you understand those basic human drives and how they might vary from person to person you cannot possibly hope to influence your people to change.Granted that the main, rather obscure, examples in the book deal with a drug rehab center in California, eradicating guinea worms and changing prostitutes' practices but if you can think laterally you'll begin to understand that people usually act in their own short-term, self interest first and won't always respond to appeals that require them to change or break their own personal inertia. In fact, you might not even understand those things from which your people gain internal reward, satisfaction and self-motivation and you may have many different people motivated by different things that have nothing to do with your formal reward system. You must find ways to convince, persuade and influence on their terms before you can expect to bring about organizational change.~~Review by the author of the e-book, "How to Build and Manage Your Brand (in sickness and in health)." This book does a great job diving into what really motivates people and why you cannot simply dictate change and expect people to make it happen. You must first gain a complete understanding of what motivates people day to day and understand the inertia involved in trying to change behavior.

This book has lots of good stories, but falls short in bringing thiem together, or providing an organized approach to improve and "influence".I was in interesting read, but it fell short of my expectations of it.I liked the authors prior 2 books.