Week 26: Modi's Pre-suasion (not Persuasion), Taking a vacation in the Metaverse

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Topics of the week:

1. Influence | Persuasion | Pre-suasion

Though it is political content, I wish to go beyond politics and invite you to focus on something that I find very intriguing and interesting.

In a 4 minute 40 seconds video, over 2 mins 20 seconds are spent on pre-suasion (Note it is not persuasion, it is pre-suasion). That is > 50% of the time spent in gaining agreement with the audience before the message is delivered or a request is made.

Professor Robert Cialdini perhaps would love to include this speech by Narendra Modi in his masterclass on Pre-suasion. If you already read the book Influence by Cialdini, you may want to check out this other book too which is titled the same Pre-suasion.

I cannot help but mention here how much I loved this response from Cialdini when a Forbes interviewer asked about why he wrote another book (titled Pre-suasion) after 30 years of having written Influence:

The truth is I never had an idea big enough to compete with?Influence. I didn’t want to plant a set of bushes around the tree that is?Influence. I wanted to wait until I had a seed for another tree, which finally arrived as?Pre-Suasion. As opposed to?Influence, which covers what best to build into a message to get agreement,?Pre-suasion?describes the process of gaining agreement with a message before it’s been sent. Although that may seem like some form of magic, it’s not. It’s established science.

2. New Social Code between Employees & Bosses

The Great Resignation is not going to end anytime sooner but more than that there are some interesting new rules that are emerging in the workplace.

Don't miss out on checking this Fast Company article that details the new social code that is emerging between employees and employers. Of the four points mentioned inside, my favourites are #1 and #4. What about you?

3. Leadership Lessons (#1 is from Dhoni)

As much as I avoid bringing references to Dhoni, I keep seeing new references. In this brief article, the 5-Time Olympian Abhinav Bindra write 3 leadership lessons we all can learn from sports and leaders like Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He ends the first lesson by saying:

The genius is in the simplicity. Bring out your ‘inner MSD’!

3. An essay on Power

If you are a student of 'leadership', you are by default a student of 'Power'. This week I read this insightful long read on the topic that most of us avoid speaking about.

People with power are?psychologically more inclined?to act on their instincts than those without it.

Thanks, Prof Galloway for writing it.

From the internet/metaverse:

Okay, tighten your seat belts because you are going to read something very different than everything you would have ever thought about vacations.

How about taking a vacation in the metaverse?

Did you know that this week we have the world’s first hospitality group to operate a hotel in the metaverse virtual world? It is M Social Decentraland .

Are you ready to take a vacation in the metaverse?

[There aren't any personal updates or giveaways this week]

That brings me to the end of this week's edition.

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