The Likeability Factor, Tim Sanders
The Likeability Factor, Tim Sanders
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The Likeability Factor
How to Boost Your L Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams

Author: Tim Sanders

Narrator: Tim Sanders

Abridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2005


Synopsis

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

About The Author

Tim Sanders is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Love Is the Killer App. As a leadership coach at Yahoo! he oversees business acumen training as well as orientation programming and manages special assignments for executives with an emphasis on mentoring, leadership tools, and cultural health analysis. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs around the country and is an irrepressible advocate for good values in the business world. He lives in northern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

From a blog post I wrote in 2005: I saw this book on sale at Border's, looked it over, then saw it on the shelf at the library that same night. What, the heck, maybe the book gods are trying to tell me something? The full title is Likeability Factor: How To Boost Your L-Factor & Achieve Your Life's Dr......more

Goodreads review by Johanna

I started the book with high expectations but these started to fade away as I read it. I thought the ideas could have been explained in fewer words. I've tried the tips advised in both books and found out that some just don't work with certain people. Anyway, I think I picked up some good skills to......more

Goodreads review by Gail

If you've noticed a trend here, I'm a pretty big fan of Tim Sanders! I just can't help it—he has such a pleasurable way of writing while, at the same time, introducing me to think about concepts (in this case, the idea of being well liked) in entirely new ways. For example, with "The Likability Facto......more

Goodreads review by Colleen

This timeless book is an excellent study of human interaction and communication science. This topic is not one that would come up in a daily conversation, yet it encompasses most of our encounters with people. I appreciate the simple, straightforward material which is not overly scientific and clini......more


Quotes

“Conventional wisdom insists that it’s more important to be respected than liked. In this book Tim Sanders challenges that notion and reveals the awesome power of likeability. He shows us that if we want to garner support from our associates, earn the loyalty of our employees, lead our followers to a better future, be healthy, and finally achieve our life’s dreams, we must first be liked. In this important and necessary book, Sanders tells us why our likeability is the foundation of our success, and shows us how we can increase our own.” —Marcus Buckingham, author of First, Break All the Rules and The One Thing You Need to Know. . .

“I think Tim Sanders hits the nail right on the head. If you just make them love you, they’ll be happy to love you. And I learned early in life that if you want people to love you you gotta make sure you love them back.” —George Foreman

“Tim Sanders provides an insightful look at how developing likeability can allow you to influence others and be more successful. The Likeability Factor should be a part of everyone’s success library. It is a fast-paced, readable book. Grab a copy to use on your success journey!” —Peter Handal, CEO, Dale Carnegie & Associates Inc.