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The Likeability Factor (Abridged): How to Boost Your L Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams Audiobook
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Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family? Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams? Do you want to become a more popular person? This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you. After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, they buy from them, they marry them, and they spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By being likeable. The more you are liked—or the higher your likeability factor—the happier your life will be. This book will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality: •Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others •Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs •Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings •Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity What happens when you improve in these areas and boost your likeability factor? •You bring out the best in others •You survive life’s challenges •You have better health—and even improve others’ health, too •You outperform in your daily roles •You win the popularity contests that define your life Join me for a few hours and I’ll share the results of hundreds of thousands of pages of research, numerous seminars, and hundreds of interviews with people just like you! Together let’s build our likeability factor and improve our lives! Also available as a Random House AudioBook
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"liked it! a lot of times these books can be ridiculous but I thought it was modern and well written and also emphasizes the larger picture of what CAN and DOES happen if you improve your likeability efforts (something i am working on....ok?) "
— Liz (4 out of 5 stars)
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" liked it! a lot of times these books can be ridiculous but I thought it was modern and well written and also emphasizes the larger picture of what CAN and DOES happen if you improve your likeability efforts (something i am working on....ok?) "
— E, 2/5/2014 -
" It had some good things in it, but most everything talked about has already been talked about. So i guess i liked it, just wasn't amazing. "
— Eric, 1/23/2014 -
" I know, like, DUH, we should all be likeable. But if you're looking for a business case for likeability, it's in here. "
— Kim, 1/20/2014 -
" Half of this book could be skipped and the next half can be skimmed. There were some good points and it made you think about your behavior a little bit, but overall the writing wasn't fantastic. Very repetitive. "
— Josalyn, 1/16/2014 -
" Favorite quotation:"Likeable people surround themselves with a shield and a sword- a positive viewpoint of themselves and a huge collection of friends." "
— Jody, 1/5/2014 -
" Terrific read. Gave practical insights to interacting successfully with others "
— John, 1/4/2014 -
" Um...skip the first half and go to section II - increasing your likeability factor. Then skim that for the steps in italics, reading sections as you want more information. Much of it is common sense unless you are a Vulcan. ;) "
— Ryan, 1/3/2014 -
" What I got from this book: I am unlikeable and that fact can't be changed. "
— Lyddie, 12/21/2013 -
" unfortunate book club pick by someone other than me. "
— Ron, 3/4/2013 -
" Sanders hit a home run on this one. Good for anyone who deals with people on a daily basis. "
— Francis, 2/3/2013 -
" There was more activity involved in this book than I realized, and since I didn't have time to do it, I probably didn't get as much out of it than I should. It's a great concept though and a quick and easy read. "
— Jen, 12/21/2012 -
" Read this while waiting for Love the killer app to come back to the Uni Library... Some good points but a little basic "
— Emma, 9/26/2011 -
" Tim is one of my top writers that I like to read, however, with this book I was left a little less interested in the subject at the end than I was at the begining. "
— Gary, 8/21/2011 -
" I am trying to be more likable "
— Dr, 7/21/2011 -
" I found it to be very repetitive - stating the obvious. "
— Linda, 7/14/2011 -
" Like many management process improvement, career building books this is an easy to read, easily understandable perspective of how to increase success in the workplace. Works with encouragement/recognition to change office culture. "
— Jon, 6/29/2011 -
" unfortunate book club pick by someone other than me. "
— Ron, 3/3/2011 -
" Terrific read. Gave practical insights to interacting successfully with others "
— John, 2/9/2011 -
" It had some good things in it, but most everything talked about has already been talked about. So i guess i liked it, just wasn't amazing. "
— Eric, 10/19/2010 -
" Like many management process improvement, career building books this is an easy to read, easily understandable perspective of how to increase success in the workplace. Works with encouragement/recognition to change office culture. "
— Jon, 7/13/2009 -
" I am trying to be more likable "
— Dr, 1/29/2009 -
" I know, like, <strong>DUH</strong>, we should all be likeable. But if you're looking for a <strong>business case</strong> for likeability, it's in here. "
— Kim, 7/9/2007
About Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders is a sought-after international speaker, a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Love Is the Killer App. He is also the author of The Likeability Factor and Saving the World at Work. He is a former executive at Yahoo!, where he served as chief solutions officer and also leadership coach, and is now the CEO of Deeper Media, an online advice-content company. Tim has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Today Show, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Family Circle, Reader’s Digest, Fast Company, and Business Week.