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David Maxfield

Greetings, and thanks for checking out this blog. I'm David Maxfield, one of the authors of Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. I'll be posting here every week, responding to people's questions and ideas and grabbing examples from whatever is current in the news.

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Coming to grips with the more intangible changes
This afternoon I spent some time with my client thinking about how we can increase the behaviour of giving feedback (praise and suggestions for improvement) in their organisation. Like many organisations many of their managers just assume their staff know ...
Re: Fitness Plan: The Power of the Environment
Your book has inspired me too. I have written to a friend in England (I'm in Australia) and we keeping each other briefed on how we are going. A bit of social pressure.
Vital behaviours for communities of practice
Over at the Influencer blog David Maxfield has written a four post series on improving teamwork based on one of the key insights from his co-authored book, also called Influencer , which is simply changing a few behaviours can drive a lot of change. ...

Books I Read

Here is a compilation of some of my favorite books from the last year. If you think of a book I might like, please let me know. I'm always in search of the next book.

Fiction

Popular Business and Psychology

More Technical Psychology

Blogs I Read

I'm relatively new to blogs but I've found some that are consistently interesting. Others I check out only occasionally. Here are the few I visit most often...

Bob Sutton's Work Matters
Bob is a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford. I believe this blog grew out of his book, The No Asshole Rule.
The Freakonomics Blog by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
This blog also grew out of a book and is facilitated by The New York Times.
Harvard Business Online: Discussion Leaders
Check out this blog/Web site and you'll see several well-respected discussion leaders and the topics they're writing about.
The New York Times
I check out the Most Popular articles on The New York Times daily. My wife and I don't have a television, so this is how we get our basic news.

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"tag:manipulation"

	Title and summary	Date/time
1	Influence and the Compliance Literature One approach to influence is through the compliance research—the study of how to get people to comply with requests they would normally view as unreasonable or even crazy. In the 1950’s Solomon Asch used peer pressure to get people to give ...	Nov 14, 2007
2	Influence vs. Persuasion and Manipulation The word "influence"...	Oct 4, 2007

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