Journalists in the west now seem to finally be admitting that our media environment has seen a radical shift towards anti-democratic forces.
Yet. This didn’t come out of nowhere.
Remember those same people posting RT clips daily back in 2015?
As far as my home country goes, we have pretty solid evidence that even if we have only ourselves to blame for supporting these people, #Russia had an #influence and provided a lot of the #disinformation ammo they shot with.
#Influence at Work - Asking someone in leadership to take the perspective of the development team will be a challenge if that leader doesn't have prior development experience. We need to establish common ground on a relevant subject. We need to find a shared experience that that is relevant to our work. Example if the problem is frequent interruptions to our dev team, then find ask them about the effect of interruptions on their own focus work. Ask open ended questions and truly listen.
#Influence At Work - asking for something too far away from what someone already agrees with will harden their current position and not move them. Distance.
Berger uses a football field to describe opinions, with extreme views in the end zones + moderate in the center. Each person has a 'Zone of Acceptance' around their opinion; opinions beyond this enter the 'Region of Rejection.' Presenting an idea far from someone's current stance reinforces their existing view.
charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
The Catalyst: Jonah Berger is good reminder of the possibility of good things, even when the gap is large. I just reread the story of Virginia who talking to a voter about Transgendered people. The voter calls them 'fags'. Virginia "I'm gay does that include me?". This turns to a discussion with the voter about their disabled spouse and being able to love anyone. By the end of conversation, the voter has changed their view. Deep listening, #empathy and #vulnerability go a long way.
❌ Le trouble business de Sonia Tlev, créatrice du Top Body Challenge
👉 Sur les réseaux sociaux, l’influenceuse distille, depuis Dubaï, ses conseils sportifs et diététiques à plus de trois millions d’abonnés. Un business lucratif… qui intrigue le fisc et laisse un goût amer à d’anciennes collaboratrices.
The prosecution’s discussion of the deal w/ #KarenMcDougal —brokered in summer 2016— demonstrated that the payment was part of a #conspiracy to #influence that year’s #election.
Pecker said that McDougal’s payment was disguised as a contract for services, to avoid violating #CampaignFinance#laws.
#Influence#Distance When we give people data, we expect the data will overcome preconceived notions and change minds. Sometimes data works at changing minds. 10 yrs ago the vaccine autism link was throughly debunked. (Orig paper was fraud). Yet showing ppl the truth often backfired. Some went from slightly anti-vaccine to throughly.
If the distance between their current thinking and the new belief is too far, it is easier to reject. https://buff.ly/3w3GRWX
Alright, who’s ready to see #Trump get his just deserts? He fucked up the whole damn world & that’s not an overstatement.
PS #BabySquirrel & I had a lovely weekend. It’s as boy! (He’s developed discernible - stuff)
He is doing quite well! Name: “Ramone” because he’s a sweet little punk rocker.
Colangelo describes some NE headlines that helped Trump's 2016 #campaign, embarrassing campaign opponents incl’g #TedCruz & #MarcoRubio.
Prosecutors are limited to the HEADLINES per #Sandoval. They go to Trump’s #intent: to #influence the election by promoting negative stories about others & suppressing those about himself.
#Influence#Failures Mere exposure to ideas that are outside of our zone of acceptance can reinforce our existing beliefs. Chris Bail et al ran experiment on twitter, they had hoped to discover that getting people to listen to ideas different from their own would moderate opinions. Result: the opposite. Exposure to ideas from the other caused them to take on more extreme beliefs. https://buff.ly/4aHbbpo
Share examples of where this has undermined your work?
#Influence#Failures We trigger #Reactance when we leave the other person feeling (not thinking ;-), that our request is all about us and not their emotional need. If you want to avoid #Reactance take the time to listen to other people's needs. Really listen with the intent to understand. (Hint this is often an emotional response, better explaining your idea won't help)
When have you triggered reactance, by putting your own needs first? What did you do to recover?
#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
#Influence#Failures and What to do about them
You're a manager who just asked your leadership to solve an impediment. Starting a new team and you tell them they need to use Scrum. In both cases you're surprised by the defensive reaction you just triggered. What happened? #Reactance
#Influence without Authority. To overcome the Endowment effect, it helps to highlight the cost of inaction. In the #Agile world, we often deal with teams that say, we too rushed or busy to improve. Consider showing them cost of not doing anything. Not refactoring and improving engineering practice? Highlight the increase of chaos in their code. Not improving flow? Consider measuring # of days items are stuck waiting to be worked on. Show the failure to act is already harming the team.
Berger's - The Catalyst, offers "Burn the Boats" as way overcoming the Endowment effect. Historically Cortes did this to force his men to conquer what we now call Mexico. Two obvious problems - few people have enough control over their situation that they have an opportunity to burn the boats. The other is that sometimes it backfires - hello Noika. (I assume we all remember the burning platform memo)
#Influence without Authority. We get kicked by the Endowment effect: It is easier to tolerate the status quo than to make change. In the #Agile world this is made worse because of a Cost Benefit Timing Gap. We pay a lot of $$ upfront and the benefit only shows up later. Sometimes much later. This tells us we need to change how we offer Change.
We must speed the time to benefit and reduce the cost/risk. Look for clever ways reduce cost of change and even make it reversible (less risk).