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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, The Best Advocates Do: An Interview With John Daly, Author of Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results (Part 4)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, The Best Advocates Do: An Interview With John Daly, Author of “Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results” (Part 3)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, the Best Advocates Do: An Interview with John Daly, Author of “Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results” (Part 2)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, the Best Advocates Do: An interview with John Daly, Author of “Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results” (1)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Daly is the author of numerous books and over … Continue reading

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Power and Persuasion: A CEO Responds

My last entry, “Power and Persuasion: Friends or Foes? (Part 2),” cited evidence that the “subjective experience of power” tended to result in what researcher Leigh Plunkett Tost of Duke University called the “power-induced neglect of the judgments of others.”[1] … Continue reading

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Power and Persuasion: Friends or Foes? (Part 2)

Is there some way that having power undermines one’s willingness to use persuasion to engage employees? That is the question. The answer is “No!”…. If you think persuasion means strong-arming someone into compliance by the strength of your arguments or … Continue reading

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Power and Persuasion: Friends or Foes? (Part 1)

When you’re on vacation the idea is to not think about business, to not let the “itch” of issues get under your skin.  In that sense, my time off this summer was…. well, let’s call it a semi-success. Part of … Continue reading

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Are “influencers” really that influential?

Since Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, it has become almost a given in marketing, and to some degree in communications, that if you want to influence some audience or target group, you only need to influence the influencers, that small … Continue reading

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