Influencer

The Power to Change Anything

By: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

From the New York Times best-selling authors of Crucial Conversations.... Whether your goal is to change minds, change markets, or change the world - anything is possible for an influencer.

Everyone wants to be an influencer. We all want to learn how to help ourselves and others change behavior. And yet, in spite of the fact that we routinely attempt to do everything from lose weight to improve quality at work, few of us have more than one or two ideas about how to exert influence. For the first time, Influencer brings together the breakthrough strategies of contemporary influence masters. By drawing from the skills of hundreds of successful influencers and combining them with five decades of the best social-science research, Influencer shares eight powerful principles for changing behaviors - principles almost anyone can apply to change almost anything.

©2007 Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (P)2007 HighBridge Company

Real Power To Change

Great book with the proof that these methods work of you take the time to put them into practice!

A++ Excellent in Every Way

Narrator, structure, content, presentation, all memorable, solid technique, applicable, and worthy of careful study.
Anyone who plans to make a difference -- including experienced change agents -- can benefit from this useful and responsibly researched book.

Will listen again

I really enjoyed this book. Will listen again because it is hard to remember it all....I should have taken notes!

Insigtful and useful

This audiobook gives you academic distinctions into how to influence others and then the pratical examples to put those distinctions into practice. If you want to learn how to be more influential and how to set up systems that peple will actually follow this is the audiobook for you

GREAT! ONE OF THE BEST

I enjoyed this audio so much I listened to it twice in the same week, and took notes. I NEVER do that! Well worth the money.

Surprisingly good

I expected a potential few good thoughts but was pleasantly surprised by a well organized and thoughtful study of influece. Some affirmation of the common sense strategies I already employ, but added new dimension to those, while also introducing new views expand upon. Also applies to helping my autistic child organize himself. Good, straight forward narration. Liked the way they applied the same theorize/techniques to a repeated variety of examples (i.e. an over eater, a village, etc.). Ended up pleasantly surprised at a better than expected book.

excellent book, well narrated.

loved it kept going back to listen again to some portions. Feeling power to change

Worth listening to...

This book is well worth the listen, though i found it repetitive and long winded at times. That said, its definitely got valuable insights and provides a lot of indepth research to back up the concepts. I actually wished I was listening to it at home so i could have taken notes at key points - listening to it in the car i now have to re-listen to jot down the key take outs. would be good if the chapters were named not just numbered to facilitiate the listener in going back to gather ideas for application after listening to the whole thing.

Ever Wanted to Influence the Outcome of a Decision

Learn some very valuable skills that can help you in your personal as well as your professional life. The contents of this book will guide you through some very real examples and common situations to help you understand how these skills will work in your life. Very well written and thought out!

Made me think!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Touches on so many aspects of change! The whats, whys and hows.

What other book might you compare Influencer to and why?

Good follow up to Crucial Conversations and Proscis ADKAR.

What about Eric Conger’s performance did you like?

Good voice, energetic, understandable, not overly dramatic, funny.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

Change only happens when people "Want" it to. You cannot force it. So the "trick" is to change their perceptions.