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convince them in 90 seconds or less
You can choose your
friends but you can’t
choose your coworkers.
away from relationships with your colleagues, employees,
superiors, and clients without walking away from your
job—you have to build and maintain those relationships
every day. This book will show you everything you need
to know about connecting
with the people you have to
connect with.
Some experts estimate
that 15 percent of your
financial success is deter-
mined by skills and knowledge, while 85 percent comes
from your ability to connect with other people and engen-
der trust and respect. Today, whether you’re interviewing
for a job, making a sale, mentoring a student, or talking
with your boss about a raise, the better you are at con-
necting with other people, the better your chances of
success will be. And you have to do it fast! People make
that “like”/“don’t like,” “okay”/“no way” decision in ninety
seconds or less. How to best handle those ninety seconds
is what you’ll learn about here.
We’re going to cover everything from your nonverbal
impact to your personal packaging, from your one-on-one
conversation skills to your ability to connect with and
influence groups. You’ll read about real-life situations
that show rather than tell you how to turn new and exist-
ing connections to your advantage, as well as a host of
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