THE Art OF Manipulation

HAVE YOU WONDERED why some people nearly always get what they want from other people, while you can only manage to do so every now and then? I certainly have, and that question had badgered me for years. Why can one person close the big business deal where ninety-five percent of the people who tried have failed? Why can some men charm and manipu_x0002_late women into almost anything, when others couldn't get the time of day from them? Why do cer_x0002_I 2 THE ART OF MANIPULATION tain women seem to get anything they want from men? Surely it comes down to the fact that these people are shrewd in the art of manipulating and han_x0002_dling people. But how do they do it? What are their techniques? As an answer, this book reports the tactics these manipulators use to get what they want in business situations as well as in their personal lives-much of it in their own words. And it's all tried-and-true street wisdom, not the kind of thing you customarily read in books. As a result, you'll find it natural to put these tactics to work getting what you want from people. They're more comfortable in action, anyway, than they are lying dormant on the written page.