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Influence

By Robert Cialdini

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Influence3 steps

Anchor High, Never Split the Difference

Find the ceiling; a reflexive split leaves six figures on the table

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Benefit-Priming Questions (Good Friction)

Add a step to your signup flow — a question that makes users think about the benefit — and conversion goes up.

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Influence4 steps

Build Champions Before the Offer

The negotiation starts sooner than you think — plant reciprocity and recruit coaches across the org

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Communication4 steps

Control the Channel, Pace, and Field

Never negotiate over email; slow it down and pick the room where you win

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Communication3 steps

Deflect the Number Question

Never name your figure first; make them reveal the range instead

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Strategy5 steps

Evidence-First Intervention Design

Literature review, then hypothesis, then 30 variants, then relative testing — never show users one design.

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Finance4 steps

Expand the Pie with Performance Triggers

Break the salary band by making it 'we' and tying pay to outcomes

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Influence4 steps

Friction Injection for Behavior Suppression

To make people do less of something, add logistical AND cognitive friction at the moment of the hot decision.

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Leadership4 steps

Incentive Alignment Against the Dark Side

We are what we measure. Set the team's incentive on the behavior, and lengthen its time horizon.

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Influence4 steps

Right for Wrong

Get people to do the thing they already want to do — by giving them a shallower, more immediate reason.

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Innovation5 steps

The Behavioral Diagnosis

A journey map on steroids: every micro-step to the behavior, with the blocking psychology named at each one.

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Influence5 steps

The Consultative Interview Flip (Sell the Vacation)

Run the interview like an enterprise sale so there is no competition when the offer comes

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Innovation4 steps

The Easiness Ladder: Default, Then Rule of Thumb, Then Decision

First line of defence is always a default. If you can't default it, give people a heuristic — never a calculation.

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Communication3 steps

The Soft Pushback

The one-line, zero-aggression ask that recovers ~20% of comp almost every time

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Innovation4 steps

The Three B's (Behavior, Barriers, Benefits)

Pick an uncomfortably specific behavior, strip its barriers, then engineer an immediate benefit.

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