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The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams |  | Author: Tim Sanders
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1400080509
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781400080502
ASIN: 1400080509
Publication Date: April 25, 2006
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Product Description
From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App
You can win life’s 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, buy from them, marry them, and 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 raising your likeability factor.
The more you are liked, the happier your life will be. In The Likeability Factor, business guru Tim Sanders shows how to build your likeability factor by teaching you how to enhance 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
When you improve these areas and boost your likeability factor, you bring out the best in others, handle life’s challenges with grace, enjoy better health, and excel in your daily roles. You can win the close calls and tight competitions that define and determine success and happiness at work and in life—The Likeability Factor can show you how!
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 Excellent book! August 4, 2009
Tony Bottorff
The Intro to this book hit the nail on the head for me and I recommend this book to everyone. As an actor, I had unknowingly blended my on-screen bad guys with my off-screen friendly self. When my friends became more distant, I knew it was time to get back on track to being likable again. The 4 stoplights analogy clarified my gameplan to being likable again. The references and citations in this book makes it a must read for the analytical types (like me).
 This book was NOT likeable at all! January 6, 2009
Sidra Ahmed
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is divided into two parts; the first half is about why the 'L factor' (likability) is important and the second half is about raising your L factor.
The introduction starts off with this radio dude, 'Mikey', who is really miserable about his life, everybody hates him, and he's about to lose his job. Enter the author. He tells Mikey about how likability is important and how he should be less negative. After following the author's advice, his life becomes a halcyon wonderland. OK, kind of a cliche story, but I kept reading anyway.
It got worse--the author has a very boring style of writing. This is the format of the book: x study shows likability helps with y trait/ anecdote about sad person who lacked y trait/ sad person learns about the L-factor and then gains y trait/sad person is now happy person.
It's hard to avoid this format when giving citations, but I felt like I was reading a English 101 paper where one gives a citation and then expands on it, over and over again. After the first 100 pages, every reader should get the point that being likable will improve your health, marriage, job, kids, oreo addiction, etc. People are reading this book to find out HOW to be more likable; the WHY of it is secondary, and should have been a much smaller section of the book.
FINALLY, we get to the second part of the book, which is supposed to be about becoming more likable. But this part is bogged down in so many anecdotes and citations that it is hard to filter through to find meaningful information. The key things which are noted in the last part are that to be more likable, one should be friendly, relevant, empathetic and real. But these points were written in such a convoluted fashion that it was a strain to even enjoy reading it.
Likability and attraction are both truly fascinating topics, but the poor presentation of the subject in this book makes this an extremely boring read. Best to read the summary on the back of the book, and find an alternative book.
How to Succeed In Business By Being The Nicest Person January 2, 2009
Shel Horowitz (Hadley, MA United States)
Three years ago, I launched this book review column, and this newsletter, with a review of Love Is the Killer App by Yahoo executive Tim Sanders--a book that I continue to recommend very strongly. He and I have corresponded a bit since that review, and I can tell you he's every bit as likeable over e-mail as he is within the pages of his book. Tim recently released another book, and even though it's a little bit outside my normal "beat", I wanted to share my thoughts about it in this space. The book, The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor & Achieve Your Life's Dreams, is not, strictly speaking, a business book. It certainly applies very much to business, and uses many business-world examples--but Tim's central point is that becoming a person that others like helps you succeed in every aspect of life. Business and career, certainly--but also, personal relationships, dealing with product complaints, even getting well after serious injury or illness. In all of these situations and countless others, if you are well-liked, your chances of meeting your goals climb dramatically. This is not just empty "feel-good" stuff. It's carefully substantiated. Sanders has spent several years immersing himself in social science research in this area, as well as documenting the results of his own seminar attendees. And we're also not talking about "likeability" as personified by the stereotypical salesman. it's got to be believable, and it's got to be trusted. If your radar goes up and you don't feel you can trust someone, the L-factor goes down, even if on the surface that person seems to be really fun to be around. The book begins by showing how likeable people are better placed to get more out of life, then outlines four key elements of likeability, then devotes the final 70 pages or so to showing, step by step, how to increase your quotient of each of those four qualities.
Shel Horowitz's award-winning sixth book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, demonstrates how to build a business around ethics, environmental sustainability, and cooperative practices--and how to develop marketing that highlights those advantages.
The Love Revolution Continued... June 17, 2008
J. A. Dierschke (Nashville, TN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What if everyone on the planet practiced "likeability"? We'd live in a far different world, I'll tell you that. After reading The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders, I did a little experiment. I tried, for just one day, to implement what Tim outlines in the book. And it turned out to be one of the best days I've had in a long time. Not only did I feel good about nearly every encounter I had, but I believe those I came in contact with felt equally good. That, for me, is revolutionary: Our everyday behavior can change the world! Tim Sanders is suggesting nothing less that a "better world" revolution, and I for one, am in. The Likeability Factor takes Love Is The Killer App to the next level. And as in that book, Sanders doesn't just propose an idea, he gives step-by-step instructions and real world examples. With the four elements of likeability: Friendliness, Relevance, Empathy, and Realness - and the almost overly simple "observe no unfriendliness" mandate, it is easy to see that this could actually work. I recommend this book to anyone who yearns for a happier, more purposeful life, and who dreams of living in a world that's a little friendlier, a little nicer, and a little warmer.
 Incredibly disappointing June 11, 2008
CK
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I so resent hyper-critical reviews, and know I won't agree with them. I agree with them. I wanted so much from this book; it delivered so little. I admit there were one or two excellent sentences. Excellent. But the rest? I read it because I was so angry I'd spent the money.
I know the author enjoyed writing it, but I am not a library file for a collection of footnoted proofs.
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