Book Titles

Influencer
The New Science of Leading Change

By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Jospeph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0071809795
Categories: Change, Influence, Leadership

103 Quotes Found

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Influencer:

…what qualifies people to be called ‘leaders’ is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.

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Influencer:

Learning how to motivate and enable others to change their actions may be the most important skill you’ll ever acquire.

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Influencer:

…the past 30 years of change literature reveals that fewer than one in eight workplace change effort produce anything other than cynicism.

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Influencer:

…fuzzy objectives are anathema to influence.

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Influencer:

Clear goals aimed at a compelling target can have an enormous impact on behavior because they engage more than simply the brain. They also engage the heart.

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Influencer:

A measure won’t drive behavior if it doesn’t maintain attention, and it certainly won’t maintain attention if it’s rarely assessed…

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Influencer:

If you want to measure to influence behavior, it must be refreshed frequently.

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Influencer:

Measurement is an integral part of the change effort, and done correctly, it informs and drives behavior.

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Influencer:

If there’s a chance that the very process of measuring results might drive the wrong behavior, then be sure to faithfully measure the actions you need to produce those results as well.

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Influencer:

Often it’s the obvious but under-used behaviors that prove vital.

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