Increase your influencing abilities with your team, boss, friends, and spouse. To have leadership influence – you cannot be a people pleaser – someone who says yes, even when they want to say no is known as a yes-man (or person). Everyone knows at least one yes-person, they are the one which is predicted to respond with “Yes, I can do that and that and that.” We love our yes-person until they either burn out or blow up. I was a full-time people-pleaser. I said yes, even when my intuition [...]