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Get Anyone to Do Anything : Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation :: 0312270178
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| Tired of being manipulated and taken advantage of? Want to learn how to influence and motivate others, turn associates into friends, and win in any competition? Then consider reading Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Feel Powerless Again by David J. Lieberman, bestselling author of Never Be Lied to Again and nationally recognized leader in the field of human behavior. Based on psychological principles, this book is less about manipulation and more about observing and influencing people (including yourself) and learning how to take control of situations. Most of Lieberman's techniques are straightforward, user-friendly, and practical. You'll learn simple ways to make a fantastic first impression, get people to return your phone calls, and stop a rumor before it ruins you. You don't even have to read the text to benefit. To help you get the upper hand quickly, strategies are reviewed at the end of each chapter. While some suggestions are obvious (smile and make eye contact), the five sections and 40 chapters contain many gems that can help improve your life. --Ellen Albertson Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Of course you can't get supernatural powers by reading this book. But I found this book to be great reading. Yes, it's similar to other pop psychology books. But if you've never read a book like this before, I can recommend this one first and foremost. It has helped me to be more confident and obtain better results in almost every life situation. It's very user-friendly and well organized/written. The book provides specific examples of action which I truly appreciated, because so many books on the topic are vague and theoretical. Show your enemies the door (or turn them into friends), make new friends, and garner respect using tools presented in this book. I re-read this book often.
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Author: Guest
This is another great book in my self-help library.
I'm the kind of person who is always looking for angles and ways to get ahead on the competition. This book had more that a few valuable pearles of wisdom and insight.
Highly recommended.
Also recommended is the audio CD "Voice Lessons to Go" for very valuable tools to improve your 2nd most important communication device.
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Author: Guest
What attracted me to this book was the mere boisterousness of the title, which seemed to promise at the very least an amusing read. I expected a tongue - in - cheek take on psychology, the author essentially saying "look, of course there's no sure fire way for anyone to get everyone to do anything, but here are a couple of practical solutions for everyday conundrums", or "here is how you can apply solid psychology to your daily problems", but I was way off mark. Instead, Lieberman actually pretends to make good on his promise by pasting together a few stale elements he lifted from a few mediocre self - help books which he seems to have read the week before he started to write this pile of tripe. Let me give you a few examples of Lieberman's wonder psychology: how, for instance, do you get someone to return your call? Why, you talk the telephonist into drawing a smiley on the memo. Well, maybe there was some pocket of humanity somewhere in the more rural parts of the American Midwest in the early Eighties where this might have worked, under the condition that you had the dubious luck to come across a mentally retarded telephonist with the sophistication of a lump of phlegm. At all other times, in all other places, in all other setups, however, this would be a sure fire way to convince anyone that you are a grade A prat.
Or how about this: how do you tell your partner that you are unhappy with your sex life? Lieberman suggests that you wait for a week or so, until, in a romantic restaurant, over a bottle of wine, you break it to your partner like this: "Honey, you are the greatest lover I have ever had, I mean the sex with you is just absolutely mindblowing. HOWEVER .... (insert shortcoming here)". Actually I would think it kinder to roll over after sex and tell your significant other that he / she has the penile dimension of a juvenile hamster / the attractiveness and brio of a dead toad.
So how do you get anyone to do anything for you? My advice is to, firstly, steer well clear of this sad excuse of a book. And secondly, how about forcing them at gunpoint? This is a method that, unlike the strategies suggested by Lieberman, might conceivably work in the real world, and is still considerably more subtle and sophisticated than anything he has to offer.
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Author: Guest
Pop psychology at its best, this stuff really does work. I don't know that you can get anybody to do anything, but you sure can get sway a lot of people to do a lot of things you couldn't before! I give it 5 stars easy. Other self-help books I liked include "The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan, A Pocket Guide To What Works."
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Author: Guest
The book was boring to read. The examples were weak. The title was the best thing.
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