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With provocative excerpts from focus groups and courtroom testimony and behind-the-scenes insights from top political operatives, a guide to the art of persuasion explains how to unite with an audience, not conquer it; use language that lets people agree with you on their terms; get people to feel good about seeing things your way; and much more.
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"... useful primer in how to become a more confident and skilled businessperson."
- Orange Coast Magazine
"I'm enthusiastic about [St. Hilaire's] approach to persuasion, which is very simple, and which is fundamentally about positivity: making other people feel good about themselves makes them feel good about you."
-Charles Purdy, Monster.com Jobs Blog
" 27 Powers of Persuasion offers readers some powerful new ideas on how to get others to follow you."
-CNBC
"St. Hilaire provides...interesting and useful methods for presenting ideas.... He's practical...though he very wisely recognizes how humans think and act. His anecdotes are apt and instructional..., and show how executives and others can present their thoughts in ways that are palatable to others without necessarily compromising or losing integrity."
- Miami Herald
"In each chapter, St. Hilaire and co-writer Lynette Padwa explain a rule of persuasion, share successes and offer insight. This book is a valuable resource for current and future leaders in the workplace and beyond."
- BookPage
"Chris St. Hilaire's 27 Powers of Persuasion is full of smart strategies to help you communicate more effectively. Take this book to heart and start winning people over right away!"
-- James W. Robinson, Senior Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
" 27 Powers of Persuasion offers a few "I knew that" moments, with even more "I should have known that" and "I wish I had known that" ones...Not even halfway through the book, I found myself employing changes to the method and manner by which I communicated with staff, clients, adversaries, judges, and the rest of the business world...St. Hilaire's methods flat out work."
--Phillip E. Friduss, Defense Resource Institute Program Chair, Annual Civil Rights and Governmental Liability Program, New Orleans, LA; 7- Time Georgia Superlawyer
