SEVEN
Power and Perception
POWER IS ALL about perception. It is not the power you have but the power the other person thinks you have that counts.
A good friend of mine, once worth many millions of dollars, lost all his money in the Great Recession. He was forced to cut back in every area, including selling his large yacht and his home in the exclusive Hamptons.
But he never told anyone.
Today, he is on his way back. He is buying and selling, negotiating and trading, expanding one company and selling another. Because everyone believes that he is still wealthy, he carries himself as though he has the same financial clout that he had a few years ago. Perception is everything.
The importance of perception applies to the types of power used in negotiating, ...
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