Yes!

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

De: Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert B. Cialdini

Narrado por: Blair Hardman

Duración: 5 h y 22 m

Resumen del Editor

Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion.

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction.

Based on more than 60 years of research into the psychology of persuasion, Yes! reveals 50 simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work and in your personal life, too.

Cowritten by the world's most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! presents dozens of surprising discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more effective persuader.

Why did a sign pointing out the problem of vandalism in the Petrified Forest National Park actually increase the theft of pieces of petrified wood? Why did sales of jam multiply tenfold when consumers were offered many fewer flavors? Why did people prefer a Mercedes immediately after giving reasons why they prefer a BMW? What simple message on cards left in hotel rooms greatly increased the number of people who behaved in environmentally friendly ways?

Often counterintuitive, the findings presented in Yes! will steer you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little known but proven wisdom.

Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life, Yes! shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.

©2008 Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

Reseñas de la Crítica

" Yes! is the Freakonomics of social psychology. This book changed my way of looking at the world. This thinking is the real deal. Don't miss out!" (Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor, The Times, London)

Very useful tips

The book is very well written and laid out. I actually bought it in hopes of picking up some useful sales tips as I start out on a new career path, nervously. The book obviously focuses its topic on Persuasion and not necessarily sales but again, it contains lots of good tips for dealing with many different types of situations.

Excellent, to-the-point persuasion techniques

Yes! is a very practical compilation of many persuasive ideas. Some I already knew, some not. The reason I like it is because each point was made succinctly & persuasively, for immediate & practical use, then they move on to the next point. All the information may not be new, but it's good to have it concisely in one place. The reading is clear; it's difficult to make such purely information content exciting, but they do a good enough job & the text includes lots of interesting examples. One suggestion: I'd prefer that the chapter titles were more concrete, less catchy. That way I could write down the point immediately for desktop reference.

The title says it all

The title says it all. There are 50 good examples on how to be persuasive. Because it is broken into 50 ways, it is very easy to pick-up and read for short amounts of time. Finally, I like how their motives are not manipulative in nature (which a lot of sales/persuasion books are).

Not bad

Interesting psychological anecdotes, many of which have been featured in other books.
Fun, but don't take it as a persuasion manual. Authors repeatedly take a single experiment and extrapolate it to unrelated business advice without any evidence it would be effective in that situation.

Very Informative

I liked the information presented in this book.
Many great ideas!!! I found any of Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Gilbert books much more entertaining. I am glad I purchased this book and will purchase the text as well. Any one in Sales/politics should read this one and put it to work.
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Many Actionable Tips

I found over ten items in this book to be new information that I could act upon immediately. Ten might seem like a low number, but get these kind of books all the time and it's rare to find any new information, much less multiple items. I highly recommend it. It has already paid for itself many times over.

Egg Heads wrote this book

Would you listen to Yes! again? Why?

No, it was somewhat interesting but in the end reading a book will never make you more persuasive, only practice can make you more persuasive. The authors give the facts, but fail to delve very far below the surface as to what is going on. Also, the jokes are as lame as they come.

What could the authors have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I don't know, but the book reads like a college paper that goes on way too long where it should be short and way too short where some additional explanation would be nice. Also, the political correctness of the this book oozes out through the seams here and there; not so much by what is said but by what is not said.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Too happy, too upbeat, not real or just annoying; it's the kind of thing you try to forget.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

My main take away is social proof or what I have termed Group Guidance which I think better describes what is going on when people make decisions based on what a group is doing or not doing. The book never gets into why this works on some and not others though, although it's pretty obvious that not considering oneself a part of the subject group would be one reason.

Any additional comments?

I wrote too much already, starting to feel like I could have written this book, which I probably could have. That's not a compliment.

I will manipulate people with this...

Had to keep making notes because it is just packed full of great advice and its all backed with science.

Story is kinda boring however this is an educational book. I see many uses of this knowledge in life in general, I think I will go and manipulate people now...goodbye.

It's Okay

A mostly interesting collection of anecdotes drawn from a lot of surveys of college students and others, mostly anecdotal evidence despite the subtitle. The authors spend a great deal of time repeating the phrase "scientific researchers" to add credibility to their work, but I'm not sure they recognize the difference between a scientist and a pollster. And maybe there isn't one.

Actionable information.

Bite sized nuggets of information that can be used immediately to improve your business. And a few things not to do.