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Introduction: What This Book Can Do for You | |
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How to Play the Persuasion Game | |
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Eight Magic Keys that Control People | |
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People can be persuaded if they think you can reward them | |
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People can be persuaded if they think you can punish them | |
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How to apply the dual pressures of reward and punishment | |
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People can be persuaded if you have bonded with them | |
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People can be persuaded if the situation limits their options | |
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People can be persuaded if they think you have more expertise than they do | |
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People can be persuaded, if you act consistently | |
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Fifteen Magic Keys that Make People Believe You | |
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Never assume they believe you | |
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Tell them only as much as they'll believe | |
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Tell the truth, even if it hurts | |
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Point out the disadvantages | |
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Use precise numbers | |
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Let them know if you're not on commission | |
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Downplay any benefits to you | |
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Dress the part of a successful person | |
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If you do have something to gain, let them know | |
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Confront problems head on | |
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Use the power of the printed word | |
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Let them know who else says so | |
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Build and use a portfolio of testimonials | |
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Get endorsements from people they'd know | |
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Use "If they can do it, I can do it." | |
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How to Make Them Want to Die for You | |
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Ask for more than you expect to get | |
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How asking for more, gets Tom his raise | |
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How children nail you to the wall--and make you love it! | |
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How this technique brought Saddam Hussein to his knees | |
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How unions and management get each other's goat | |
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Sometimes they give you what you want anyway | |
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Unethical ways to use this concept | |
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The Oliver Twist syndrome | |
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Volunteer concessions but only those who won't hurt you | |
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Give a small gift | |
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Use the magic in a gift of flowers | |
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Give the gift of thoughtfulness | |
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Make it win-win | |
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How Scarcity Drives People Wild | |
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Even smart people can fall for the scarcity yo-yo | |
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Scarcity drives value and prices sky high | |
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My aunt had one of those but she threw it away! | |
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Using scarcity to get real estate bargains | |
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Bringing Them to Their Knees with Time Pressure | |
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The faster you can persuade the other person to decide, the more likely you are to get what you want | |
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The longer you give them to think about it, the less chance you have of getting what you want | |
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How children use time pressure like a pro | |
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Moving people with the power of time pressure | |
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Secrets from inside a time share closing room | |
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The Zen-Like Art of Sharing Secrets | |
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The magical three-step formula for getting cooperation from the other person | |
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Why forbidding aggravates family problems | |
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Why censored information seems more valuable | |
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The Power of Association: Tying Your Persuasion to Something Good | |
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It's hard for our mind to break association | |
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Utilizing the value of celebrity spokespeople | |
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How to get people to react more favorably to a proposal | |
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Pacing the mention of your product or service to the high points of a business lunch | |
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Painting pictures that tie your product to pleasurable experiences | |
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The Power of Consistency: It's More Important to Do it Often Than to Do it Right | |
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Using the power of consistency | |
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Why it's better to be a tyrant than a wimp | |
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Why we're suspicious of inconsistent behavior | |
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Using consistency to move the merchandise | |
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Why Carter's downfall was Reagan's windfall | |
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Why Consistent Behavior Kicks Your Performance Into High Gear | |
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The personal value blueprint | |
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Life is sweeter with a value blueprint | |
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Trying to live with the golden rule | |
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Straight up. It's a way to climb a mountain, a way to pour a drink, and a really fine way to live a life | |
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Bonding--the Magic Key to Persuasion | |
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How to sell up a storm using the principle of bonding | |
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How people bond to their mental investments | |
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Experimenting with bonding in your personal life | |
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How interrogators use the power of commitment | |
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The essay contest phenomenon | |
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Making commitments to yourself | |
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Persuasive Speeches | |
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Knowing what caused your audience to be there | |
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Knowing whether to put your strongest argument at the beginning or at the end | |
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If several speakers will present, knowing whether to go first or last | |
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How to pose the question when asking the audience to vote | |
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A simple and effective way to get the audience on your side | |
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Knowing whether to use emotion or logic to persuade | |
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Improving your ability to persuade an audience | |
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Using constructive distractions to improve your ability to persuade | |
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Using of humor as a persuader | |
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When to present both sides of the argument, or only one | |
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Avoiding the overstatement trap | |
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The art of getting the most effective introduction | |
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The number one thing you can do to persuade from the platform | |
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Eight Verbal Persuasion Ploys to Control the Other Person | |
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Diffusion | |
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Yes, I take it personally | |
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Being Nixonesque | |
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"I'm not offended." | |
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"Easy to deny." | |
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"I'm not suggesting." | |
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Give the other person options | |
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"Why would you want to do that?" | |
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Exposing and Destroying their Negative Emotions | |
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Suspicion--they don't appear to trust you | |
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Anger--they're upset with something that happened | |
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Greed--you appear vulnerable, and they want to take advantage of it | |
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Hurt--they're upset and want revenge | |
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The Sweet Language of Persuasion | |
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Fallacy | |
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Defective syllogisms | |
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Rhetoric | |
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Circular logic | |
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Ipse dixits | |
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Ad populems | |
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Short-circuiting logic | |
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Logic, not words, should persuade | |
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Never Accept an Invitation to Attack | |
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Determining your objective | |
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Gathering information | |
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Assessing your power by calculating each person's alternatives | |
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Looking for concessions to make, that don't detract from your position | |
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Analyzing the Persuadee | |
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Knowing How People will React to what You Tell Them | |
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How to distinguish matchers from mismatchers | |
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Matchers look for similarities | |
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Mismatchers look for differences | |
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Matchers like their world to stay the same | |
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Mismatchers are always discontent | |
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How to persuade the matcher | |
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How to persuade the mismatcher | |
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What Motivates the Other Person | |
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Possibility versus necessity | |
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Self-centered versus externally centered | |
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Moving toward pleasure, or away from pain | |
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Field dependent or field independent | |
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How the Other Person Decides | |
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Assertive versus unassertive | |
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Emotional versus unemotional | |
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Open or close minded | |
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Conscious or unconscious thought processors | |
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Visuals, auditories, and kinestetics | |
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How to Become a Power Persuader | |
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Developing Charisma: How to Make Them Love You! | |
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A very special quality | |
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Charisma--the nonverbal persuasion power | |
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Auras in darkest Africa | |
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To understand charisma, imagine the opposite | |
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Twelve Ways to Project an Awesome Charisma | |
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Treating everyone you meet as if they're the most important person you'll meet that day | |
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Developing a sensational handshake | |
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Noticing the color of their eyes as you shake hands | |
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As you shake hands, push out a positive thought | |
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Giving sincere compliments | |
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Catching people doing something right | |
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Looks do matter! | |
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Smile for the magic 2 seconds longer than they do | |
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Take a check up from the neck down | |
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Pushing out empathy | |
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Responding to people's emotions, not to what they say | |
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Maintaining a childlike fascination for the world in which you live | |
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How You Can Develop a Dynamite Sense of Humor | |
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Humor may be the only thing that will stop you from going crazy | |
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How to develop a sense of humor | |
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The five things that make people laugh. Learning what makes it funny | |
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A practice session on identifying the style of humor | |
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Witticisms: The persuaders best type of humor | |
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A thirty-day program to improve your sense of humor | |
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You Need Never Forget Another Name | |
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The magic secret to remembering names | |
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A visit to the control center of the mind | |
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How the mind processes information | |
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Selective memoryhow it works | |
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The trigger that makes you remember | |
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Developing your personal trigger | |
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How to transpose from short-term to long term memory | |
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Six steps to burning the name into your memory | |
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Don't try to outdo the experts | |
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Giving yourself an ace advantage | |
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The key to remembering faces | |
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An exercise in memory discipline | |
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How important is it to remember names? | |
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Learning Persuasion Techniques | |
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A Magic Persuasion Technique | |
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Using the other person's name at the beginning or the end of a sentence | |
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Making your request | |
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Tilt your head and smile as you say it | |
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Why the magic formula works | |
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How to use the formula | |
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The Four Stages of Persuasion | |
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Establishing objectives | |
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The unhappy employee | |
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The problem teenager | |
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The alcoholic husband | |
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Finding out what they want | |
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Identifing the pressure points | |
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Looking for compromise | |
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Eight Ways to Persuade the Angry Person | |
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Are you the target? | |
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A magic expression | |
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Restating the objection | |
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That hasn't been my experience | |
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Handling the showman | |
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Don't exacerbate the situation | |
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First find out what they want | |
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Charm them to death | |
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Eight Reasons Why People Won't Open Up | |
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Figure out why won't they talk | |
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Obsession | |
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Inhibition | |
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Apathy | |
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Sulking | |
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Evaluation | |
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Penuriousness | |
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Time pressure | |
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Fear | |
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Leadership and the Power Persuader | |
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The leader's doctrine | |
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How to develop the mission | |
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The four key elements of the mission | |
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The importance of informing the troops | |
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Using persuasion skills to sell the mission | |
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Building leadership credibility | |
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Building credibility when you're new on the job | |
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Leadership and the art of consistency | |
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Caring more about the success of your people | |
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The mission is the most important thing | |
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Painting the picture of the mission | |
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The essence of persuasive leadership | |
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Epilogue: The Secret of Power Persuasion | |
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Index | |