www.manager-tools.com recommends this book! – I have read it, and I think it is very useful.
You will better understand all compliance techniques used by people trying to persuade you in doing something.
Here are the compliance rules – with statements that characterize them!
- Reciprocation - “Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Commitment and Consistency – “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
- Social proof – “When all think alike, no one thinks very much” – Walter Lippman
- Liking – “The main work of a trial attourney is to make a jury like his client” – Clarence Darrow.
- Authority - “Follow an expert” – Virgil.
- Scarcity - “The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost” – GK Chesterton.
For more information: a great review at Amazon.
A great mindmap that summarizes the book and this podcast of Mr. Cialdini (relating to this book).
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Free mp3 with interview with Robert Cialdini (free subscription to site required)
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