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:

More often than not, powerful elements from our environment remain invisible to us.

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The environment affects muc of what we do, yet we often fail to notice its profound impact.

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Much of what we do… is influenced by dozens of silent environmental forces that drive our decisions and actions in ways that we rarely notice.

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…the data have to be fresh, consistent, and relevant if they’re going to have much of an impact.

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The fact that different groups of employees are exposed to wildly different data streams helps explain why people often have such different priorities and passions.

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If you want to predict who doesn’t trust of get along with whom in a company, take out a tape measure.

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…smart creatures do their best to find a way to make hard tasks easier.

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…when it comes to enabling others, we often turn to training before we look for ways to make the task easier to perform.

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Making use of things to enable behavior works best when you can alter the physical world in a way that eliminates human choice entirely.

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Often all that’s required to make good behavior inevitable is to structure it into your daily routine.

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