The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams 
asked by costa on November 1, 2006 3:58 AM
Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family?
Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams?
Do you want to become a more popular person?
This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.
After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, they buy from them, they marry them, and they spend precious time with them.
The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By being likeable.
The more you are liked—or the higher your likeability factor—the happier your life will be. This book will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality:
•Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others
•Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs
•Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings
•Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity
What happens when you improve in these areas and boost your likeability factor?
•You bring out the best in others
•You survive life’s challenges
•You have better health—and even improve others’ health, too
•You outperform in your daily roles
•You win the popularity contests that define your life
Join me for a few hours and I’ll share the results of hundreds of thousands of pages of research, numerous seminars, and hundreds of interviews with people just like you! Together let’s build our likeability factor and improve our lives!
Also available as a Random House AudioBook
Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams?
Do you want to become a more popular person?
This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.
After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, they buy from them, they marry them, and they spend precious time with them.
The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By being likeable.
The more you are liked—or the higher your likeability factor—the happier your life will be. This book will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality:
•Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others
•Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs
•Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings
•Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity
What happens when you improve in these areas and boost your likeability factor?
•You bring out the best in others
•You survive life’s challenges
•You have better health—and even improve others’ health, too
•You outperform in your daily roles
•You win the popularity contests that define your life
Join me for a few hours and I’ll share the results of hundreds of thousands of pages of research, numerous seminars, and hundreds of interviews with people just like you! Together let’s build our likeability factor and improve our lives!
Also available as a Random House AudioBook
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It was a good book I purchased because he was a great speaker. This book could seriously be about 30 pages with a nice appendix. I love the fact that he uses research to prove his point but you get the point rather quickly and then its just redundancy. You will not be able to make a workshop out of it but it does give you some statistics to back up a very good message.
reviewed by learner on November 17, 2006 11:42 PM
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Excellent book a pleasure to read. Provides scores of helpful suggestions to enhance your likeability factor and the impact it will have on your professional and personal life. I highly recommend it! Dr. Tom Pomeranz, President, Universal LIfeStiles, LLC
reviewed by webster on November 22, 2006 10:50 PM
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I recently saw Tim Sanders speak at a private business forum. His message range loud and clear: people do business with people they like. As a business coach, I talk to business owners and professionals all the time, and I can tell you that in my experience, many people in business are so transaction-oriented that they fail to do the simple things that create the kind of warm personal interaction that people need to feel good about doing business with someone. It's the likeability stuff that sticks with people and leads to repeat business and referrals. Tim Sanders' book is not only a reminder that we need to pay more attention to how we interact with people, he shows us how to become more likeable. It may seem like a simple concept, but it's essential. Highly recommended reading for anyone whose business depends on influencing others!
reviewed by jazzman on November 28, 2006 5:07 PM
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I purchased this book with the intention of using it in an employability class. The author spent more time prooving that likeability matters than helping improve the likeability factor. Everyone has worked with people they hated, the impact of likeability is something we live with. The language is clear and accessible for high school level readers.
His web site made him look like a dynamic speaker. I called to inquire about booking the author for a group of students. The staff that operated could not have been more unlikeable. They were dismissive and rude. A little bit ironic that the representation of author of likeabilty have apparantly not read his book.
His web site made him look like a dynamic speaker. I called to inquire about booking the author for a group of students. The staff that operated could not have been more unlikeable. They were dismissive and rude. A little bit ironic that the representation of author of likeabilty have apparantly not read his book.
reviewed by tsu on November 29, 2006 5:16 AM
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The first parts of it, being friendly and such, are pretty basic. Of course being friendly makes you likeable. But where I got stuck was in "empathy." Empathy is problematic, I've discovered, and I'd have liked to see more on managing or balancing that empathy. Somtimes you have to step back when your empathy results in someone taking problems that really require intensive, long-term professional help and trying to make their problems yours, too - or cling to you to solve them. It's an oppressive, clingy kind of negative result that the book sets you up for but then fails to address.
reviewed by bigdv on November 29, 2006 9:02 AM