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The Charisma Myth

How to Engage, Influence and Motivate People

Author: Olivia Fox Cabane  

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How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with people

What if charisma could be taught? Charisma can be a huge asset if you're applying for a job, improving your relationships, or leading other people. This title shows you how to become more influential, more persuasive, and more inspiring.

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How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with people

What if charisma could be taught? Charisma can be a huge asset if you're applying for a job, improving your relationships, or leading other people. This title shows you how to become more influential, more persuasive, and more inspiring.

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How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with peopleWhat if charisma could be taught?What you'll find here is practical magic- unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment.The Charisma Myth is a mix of fun stories, sound science, and practical tools. Cabane takes a hard scientific approach to a heretofore mystical topic, covering what charisma actually is, how it is learned, what its side effects are, and how to handle them.

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Critic Reviews

“Charisma is not a gift, it's a tool. Cabane makes a big promise with this book and delivers on it”

Charisma is not a gift, it's a tool. Olivia Fix Cabane makes a big promise with this book and delivers on it Seth Godin
Until I encountered Olivia Fox Cabane, I'd naively believed charisma was an intangible, magical aura...a couple of hours can transform a reasonably personable person into someone magnetic The Sunday Telegraph
If you are interested in increasing your ability to be charismatic, this book will give you direct skills to use Psychology Today
An easy read, effectively integrating stories and research, strategies and applications, techniques and practices New York Journal of Books
Engaging, clear, and chock-full of wisdom, practical recommendations, and uncommonly good sense Stephen Kosslyn, director, Center for Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford

Cabane has done us a big favor. She's woven solid science and engaging narrative into an instructive treatment of the role of charisma in leadership-a topic that (until now) we only poorly understood

Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence: Science and Practice

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About the Author

Olivia Fox Cabane has taught leadership, innovation, genius and charisma at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations. She is the cofounder of KindEarth.Tech and former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's startup accelerator as well as a best-selling author and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies.

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What if charisma could be taught? Charisma can be a huge asset if you're applying for a job, improving your relationships, or leading other people. The Charisma Myth shows you how to become more influential, more persuasive, and more inspiring. Soon you'll be able to move through a room and have people say: 'Wow, who's that?' Many people believe that charisma is unchangeable - you either have it or you don't. But that's simply not true. This groundbreaking, bestselling book reveals how charismatic behaviour can be learned by anyone. Olivia Fox Cabane helps some of the world's best-known people become more charismatic. Here she breaks charisma down into its fundamental components, revealing the secrets to how it works. Improving your charisma doesn't mean transforming your personality: it's about adopting a series of practices that suit you. So what are you waiting for? 'Until I encountered Olivia Fox Cabane, I'd naively believed charisma was an intangible, magical aura. But she is changing what was considered an art into a science . . . around a couple of hours can transform a reasonably personable person into someone magnetic' Sunday Telegraph 'If you are interested in increasing your ability to be charismatic, this book will give you direct skills to use' Psychology Today Charismamyth.com

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
4th April 2013
Pages
272
ISBN
9780670922871

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