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This is the indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Adrian Ma.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
Influence, the ability to persuade, motivate, or connect with other people.
It's one of these skills that's hard to measure but incredibly important in the world of work.
Steve Martin knows this because he's the faculty director of Behavioral Science at Columbia Business School.
And for years he's been studying what makes people influential within organizations.
It's at the core of everything it's around us.
Without influence, nothing gets done and nothing changes.
And yet Steve argues that we often misunderstand how influence works.
So today on the show, Adrian's conversation with Steve.
He distills his decades of research to explain the unspoken rules of influence in the workplace.
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