Influence and Persuasion: Why Pulling Is More Effective Than Pushing!

I posted a video of a tugboat recently on social media.

Influence and Persuasion are needed in leadership, conflict resolution, decision making, project management, or in selling.

When people think about the word “influence”, they usually think about it in terms of PUSHING: a person exerting power or pressure on another. While this is certainly true, there is also another side to influence that many people don’t realize exists: PULLING.

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