Becoming a Person of Influence

Book Summary

This book was prefaced with offering the promise of increasing one’s personal and organizational success and achieving results beyond any charted goal or expectation that you could have ever imagine. Through your impact on others, you can become a person of influence. This book takes you on a journey to becoming an influencer which will change your personal outlook on life and business growth. You affect growth in your area of choice from the inside out. Living life from the inside out and changing not what you see, but who you are and how you operate outwardly. The back cover of the book states that Managers, Parents, Coaches, Pastors and Sales people will reach more people, break records and see others respond differently to you as a leader.

The book “Becoming A Person of Influence” is really a book on marketing oneself from the inside out. How you live life from the inside out will determine the impact that you have on others. Your success is not made by your own efforts, but rather thru the efforts of those who surround you and cross your path. Once you have learned that you have the ability to influence and inspire others, you will catapult the growth of your own success after all marketing is about securing your growth and success.

Key Points

In society it is the job of every individual to work, save, invest and innovate. This is the minimum that each person should contribute to society. These objectives do not happen to anyone all at once, it is gradual growth that happens in stages and thru processes.

So goes the same for any venture that you set out to achieve. Successful marketing of yourself or business is not an instantaneous occurrence; this happens in stages with many trials and errors. The authors key points were based on the following model:

a. Model b. Motivate c. Mentor d.Multiply

Model

One good marketing strategy when first starting out is to seek out...