Selling of The Eiffel Tower – The Great Con I was reading this great article in Harvard Business Review, which focuses on how we CAN’T recognize our weaknesses. The other challenge is that most people feel responsible for their…
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Episode 523 – Selling of The Eiffel Tower – The Great Con
Posted in Podcasts Tagged with: André Poisson, Con artist, dunning kruger, Eiffel tower, Fraud, Garrison Keillor, kurt mortensen, lake wobegon, Lake Wobegon Days, maximum influence, persuasion iq, rip-off, scam, scheme, self perception bias, Victor Lustig, wobegon effect
Episode 128 – Is Your Presentation “Interesting” or “Persuasive?”
Have you noticed the dramatic changes that have evolved in presentations, communication, and training over the last twenty years? The basic focus used to be on education. Many people are still trying to educate and they always lose their audiences.…
Posted in Podcasts Tagged with: blinking light study, Charisma, david ludden, kurt mortensen, leadership, powerpoint blunders, self perception bias, steve olson, story selling, upward mobility
Episode 109 – How You Create Resistance
We tend to rate our skills that we want, that we need or that we require higher than they actually are. To improve, grow and become more successful we have to know our weaknesses and be able to identify our…
Posted in Podcasts Tagged with: emotional intelligence, eq, influence, kurt mortensen, leadership, persuasion, resistance, self perception bias, steve olson