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Thomas Erikson • Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) (The Surrounded by Idiots Series)
Realize That Yellows May See Your Lips Moving but Not Hear Anything You’re Saying
Thomas Erikson • Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) (The Surrounded by Idiots Series)
“egomaniacal.”
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Effective negotiation is applied people smarts, a psychological edge in every domain of life: how to size someone up, how to influence their sizing up of you, and how to use that knowledge to get what you want.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Successful negotiators delve into differences.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
The way a person communicates can tell us a lot about who they’ve been associating with, who they’ve been influenced by. How far their allegiance goes.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Academics, consultants, policy wonks, and other symbolic analysts
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Berggren was at least prepared to nail his colors to the mast: “I’m a republican, basically, and it’s definitely an intellectual nuisance, but I tend to agree with Engels that it’s a distraction.