A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to ...

A nudge is an intervention that maintains freedom of choice but steers people in a particular direction. A tax isn’t a nudge. A subsidy isn’...

For humans, exposure to one stimulus influences how a person responds to a related stimulus later. Our brains are adapted to process informa...

Life is not fair. If you think it is, you are sorely mistaken. What you've got to do in politics is be sure that what you say can be jus...

Verbal Judo is a means of using language to get someone to comply voluntarily with your original request. Unpleasant confrontations are more...

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You can use this material to blame just as well as you can use anything else. Merely knowing  t...

For fourteen years, my father conducted one of the country’s leading amateur Bach choirs in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For a few of those year...

  A wareness  represents a person's understanding of the nature of change, why the change is being made and the risk of not changing. Aw...

I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends on trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it...

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.  Benjamin Franklin  Autobi...

There's an allure about humble people. They exude greater power, influence and persuasion than their overly-talkative brethren becaus...

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. L...

Feeling entirely at home with persons of high or lowly rank [ George Albert Smith ] rejected the idea of class distinctions. When his fri...

Transformational leaders exhibit four characteristics in their interactions with employees; idealized influence, inspirational motivation...

[I]magine you’ve got a problem that feels too risky or futile for anyone on your team to speak up about individually. Perhaps it’s about ...

Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the o...

"Understanding habits is the most important thing I’ve learned in the army,” the major told me. “It’s changed everything about how I ...

Real leadership requires personal influence -- persuasion afforded by a long track record of strong relationships built by trust. That rese...

Leadership is a skill, and I believe like all skills, can be mastered with practice and coaching. That does not mean that there aren’t in...

“ [E.D.] Morel has never had an equal as organizer and leader of a Dissenting movement,” writes the historian A.J.P. Taylor. “He knew ex...