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Kindness is rarely inappropriate.
Compassion, breathing, noticing — that buddhist sense of detachment. All can help us be better leaders and better human beings.
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It pays to nitpick.
I’m definitely a badge carrying member of the grammar police…and I make mistakes sometimes. This snippet as part of an HBR blog series has some useful tidbits. Please, please, please learn the rules of "I" versus "me" — getting this right really means something!!
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Lessons from one revered American president who might have been too soft.
Yup, an overused strength can be problematic. Even good people skills. Learn from Lincoln.
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Dr. Robert Cialdini is the authority on the study of influence. Here he explains how the six principles of influence can help you be more persuasive.
This is a terrific and brief overview of Cialdini’s 6 classic principals of influence:
1. Reciprocity
2. Consistency (reminds me of Emerson’s "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
3. Social Proof
4. Liking
5. Authority (as in being know as one)
6. Scarcity
Seems so simple and yet so few people do it well…
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