How to achieve influence: Birds of a feather
David CushmanDavid Cushman Consulting
Influence depends on a 'flock' response to an agitator who grants permission to the flock to behave in a certain way within a particular social context in shared conditions.
Influence is fluid. It functions more like the ebb and flow of flocks of birds more than it does any kind of peer-induced command and control. Influence is complex. It varies from moment to moment, from subject to subject, from receiver to receiver, from context to context.
Influence is a social construct. Your influence over me depends as...