Truth, Lies & Work

# persuasion

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19:59Why 'logic bullying' failsOwen Fitzpatrick: Yeah. So there's a notion that Adam Grant, Professor Adam Grant, he wrote a book, great— well, he's written a number of great books, but one of them is called Think Again. And in it, he introduces the cEP 323 · 30 Jul 2026·interview· 19:59–24:0435:21Social influence vs. manipulationLeanne Elliott: I want to now look at an area on here that I wasn't as familiar with, and I'm hoping you can, you can enlighten me, Vince. It was around the kind of social influence And when I hear social influence, maybEP 307 · 4 Jun 2026·interview· 35:21–40:389:25Story 2: The 5 words that make you more persuasiveAl Elliott: Uh, Dr. Cheryl Robinson. She wrote an article in Forbes last week about the 5 words you should be using at work to get ahead and be perceived as a leader. Leah, these are 5 single words. They're not technicalEP 186 · 9 Apr 2025·news roundup· 9:25–16:316:29Why most of us aren't very good at persuadingAl Elliott: Absolutely. So I wanted to find out a bit more about what leaders could learn from the psychology of persuasion that marketers use every single day. After all, a huge part of leading effectively is persuadingEP 75 · 25 Jan 2024·interview· 6:29–9:2813:40Persuasion vs. manipulation — where's the line?Al Elliott: So let's just back up for a second because I think a lot of people think that persuasion and manipulation are the same thing. Now, I wanted to know what the actual difference was from Phill, who's arguably onEP 75 · 25 Jan 2024·interview· 13:40–16:46

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