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An influencer motivates others to change. An influencer replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills. An influencer makes things happen.

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:

Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change. Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions. Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable.

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 ?

”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

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 007148499X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (September 13, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780071484992
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071484992
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
Reviewer: Remrie Arrie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Absolutely incredible
Review: This is NOT a book to casually read or to get some instant motivation in life to do better at work or school. This book is full of case studies, examples, morals, lessons, and applicable suggestions to help you and you (and others) become much more influential at anything and be completely relevant to all your individual needs.What I didn't like about the book (the unusual examples and stories they use) turned out to be more helpful than if they used generalized concepts that most people face. By using real examples of exceptionally unusual and exotic people, places and things, (albeit annoying at times with redundancy) it helps a great deal with keeping an open mind with "how can I apply this to my situation" rather than provide a generalized situation that might mistakenly trick you into trying some cookie cutter formula of success.I bought this book with the unabridged audio book, while I wasn't reading the paper book, I was listening to it. That helped me get through it faster, then when I read through the book itself things clicked much more effectively.Buy lots of different colored highlighters, you'll need them.Green = What the author wants you to doPink/red = what the author wants you to avoid / not doOrange = key points and things to knowYellow = General to your own personal interestsPurple = highlight namesBlue = highlight references and terms and definitions.Highlighting like that makes it much harder to skip over anything, and makes it much easier to find content in the future because you will know what you are looking for, and what color it will be. Do that for all books like this you read.Questions? Comments? email [email protected]

Reviewer: David Hill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This Is A Book That I Will Keep
Review: I rarely read every word of a book because quite frankly most books are poorly written and don't have much to say. No so with Influencer (An Unabridged Production)[8-CD Set]; The Power to Change Anything. I found myself going back and re-reading every word. I will always keep this book in my library. This book gives us tremendous insight into how our behavior as human beings is influenced by motivation and ability. This book is a combination of psychology and sociology. If you think of yourself as a leader and you have ever been frustrated in being able to change your own behaviour or that of some group of people you're trying to influence you must read this book. If you work for a boss who isn't a very good leader, you're going to find out why your boss can't motivate you or your team to success. Too bad for your boss because you will never be the same and you might have to go and get a better job or better yet go out and create your own new job. No spin/hype here - just excellent research and excellent writing. Don't make the mistake of taking this book lightly and looking for a quick fix. Read every word and then think about your problem and then read every word again and you'll begin to see a way be an influencer and change your world. Along with this book you also need to get Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High Written by the same folks and they go together.

Reviewer: Ben Wallace
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Good Work, If Also A Sales Tool
Review: A good work, but also a sales tool for the academic/consultant authors to market their consultancy business, with all the inevitable new terminology.Summary: Identify behaviours to change (and the influences on those), not outcomes. Identify positive deviants and their behaviours and share these (train, mentor). Use socially connected and influential champions (influence). Change the physical environment to get good behaviour. Align behaviours with values (what people want) and values with behaviours so people are intrinsically motivated (enable people to do what they want using information & feedback). Practice new things, learn, improve with small steps.In the books terminology the "six sources of influence" are:1. Personal Motivation (aligning with values)2. Personal Ability (training)3. Social Motivation (influential champions)4. Social Ability (people helping each other, teams)5. Structural Motivation (aligning reward systems)6. Structural Ability (physical layout, environment)Distinguishes between innovators and early adopters or opinion leaders.Suggests to tell things in stories (parables?) or using demonstrations rather than stating conclusions and recommendations.Refers to power of image and associations such as being 'one of us', 'respected or not', etc.Says people will change their minds if they think it is worth it and they can do what is required.Is still pretty top down - speaks to 'leaders' and managers.Does suggest to openly discuss culture in order to openly change norms.Is very assertive on the academic style of research, despite using many examples of influencers who weren't academics or, I suspect, using academic sources to create their ideas for influence.Taking their advice on stories I would pick "Maverick" as a better book on organisation change (and what a better organisation might look like), but this is a good work and well worth it.

Reviewer: Tora
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I absolutely loved this book. So interesting, so well written, so comprehensive. I loved how it was laid out in a system - so much easier to follow because of the structure. I have pencil marks all through my copy, not something I usually do with a book but so much interesting information I wanted to be able to go back to it easily.

Reviewer: Pedro O
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great book

Reviewer: The Emperor
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A very useful book on how to bring about change in organisations.There are lots of interesting anecdotes and examples throughout.It does provide a good framework. You can use it for making personal changes but it is probably more suited to organisations.It is well written but could on occasion be a little superficial and glib. However I still learned a lot from it.

Reviewer: David
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: An absolute must buy! This book will drastically change how you look at and react to a number of problems, whether it be within business or social life. It should be on everyone's bookshelf.

Reviewer: Dr. M. Clayton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Another book from the team that gave us Crucial Conversations - this delivers a different take on influencing from other books out there: refreshing and insightful. They write well, too, so I recommend this highly.