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business or professional organization, people will also trust and respect
you more if you are actively involved, engaged, and committed to the
enterprise. To become highly influential, it helps to be well-liked, wellregarded, and indispensable.
Fortunately, none of us is born with a fixed amount of power and
influence. No matter who you are, you can become more powerful and
more influential, and one of the keys is improving your interpersonal and
social skills.
Parts of this article are
excerpted from Terry R.
Bacon, Elements of
Influence: The Art of
Getting Others to Follow
Your Lead (NY:
AMACOM Books, 2011).
Photo credits: Friends in a
bar: Sean

Locke/istockphoto.com. Young businesswoman: Maridav/istockphoto.com.
Business people looking at a chart: Jacob Wackerhausen/istockphoto.com.
Copyright © by Terry R. Bacon.
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