Crucial Influence: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change, 3rd Edition

The New York Times bestselling guide to leading positive change in any organization―updated with critical new insights, research, and case studies

The world-renowned leadership experts that brought us the leadership classic Crucial Conversations have fully updated their bestselling Crucial Influence (originally published as Influencer). In these pages, they reveal that fewer than one in eight behavior change efforts is successful—and most produce nothing more than wasted resources and organization-wide cynicism.

The solution to this challenge isn't easy, but it is simple. It's all about the strategic application of influence—systematic and intentional actions aimed at helping people improve results by changing their behavior—a practice most leaders have yet to fully understand and embrace.

Crucial Influence walks you through the process of identifying the personal, social, and structural levers...