Enchantment Enchantment

Enchantment

The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

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Publisher Description

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update. And when done right, it's more powerful than traditional persuasion, influence, or marketing techniques.

Kawasaki argues that in business and personal interactions, your goal is not merely to get what you want but to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change in other people. By enlisting their own goals and desires, by being likable and trustworthy, and by framing a cause that others can embrace, you can change hearts, minds, and actions. For instance, enchantment is what enabled . . .
   •  A Peace Corps volunteer to finesse a potentially violent confrontation with armed guerrillas.
   •  A small cable channel (E!) to win the TV broadcast rights to radio superstar Howard Stern.
   •  A seemingly crazy new running shoe (Vibram Five Fingers) to methodically build a passionate customer base.
   •  A Canadian crystal maker (Nova Scotian Crystal) to turn observers into buyers. 
This book explains all the tactics you need to prepare and launch an enchantment campaign; to get the most from both push and pull technologies; and to enchant your customers, your employees, and even your boss. It shows how enchantment can turn difficult decisions your way, at times when intangibles mean more than hard facts. It will help you overcome other people's entrenched habits and defy the not-always-wise "wisdom of the crowd."

Kawasaki's lessons are drawn from his tenure at one of the most enchanting organizations of all time, Apple, as well as his decades of experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. There are few people in the world more qualified to teach you how to enchant people.

As Kawasaki writes, "Want to change the world? Change caterpillars into butterflies? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to convince people to dream the same dream that you do." That's a big goal, but one that's possible for all of us.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2011
March 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
22.5
MB

Customer Reviews

SFOTaina ,

Get it!

Everything in every era has something bigger or better... There is NO súper sizing here... There are simple common denominators that we ALL like or admire but simple walk away from making them real.... Sometímes we resist them and forget that basic, simple ideas, views or goals have an audience.... And that audience is US.....

Artie_D ,

Thank you!

Above all great concepts presented in this book I really appreciate Guy's humble, humorous approach. Thanks Guy!

appleseed91 ,

Least Helpful

I have never reviewed a book before, but I also never wanted a refund more than after reading over five chapters of Enchantment.

Enchantment was the least actionable business book I’ve ever read. The insights were obvious and lacked substance.

After reading 150 pages, I have nothing to put into action.

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