usp=sharing Business model generation/Canvas  The Startup Owners Manual - by Steve Blank[Honarable mention] The E-Myth Good to great - Jim Collins*Sales* Fanatical prospecting,  How to win Friends and influence people - by Dale Carnegie Never eat alone - by Keith Ferrazzi Traction how any startup can create explosive customer growth - by Gabriel Weinberg Questions that sell - by Paul Cherry Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B.

See podcast link below:https://geniusnetwork.com/negotiation-mastery-negotiation-lessons-from-a-former-fbi-hostage-negotiator-for-becoming-more-persuasive-with-chris-voss-and-joe-polish/@Michele King @Chase Randolph I enjoyed Devil in the White City too. 

Also, presenting numbers can be persuasive, as far as the city council goes. 

Repeat.No matter how cute they are or how persuasive they are, etc., etc., etc., etc.Unless, of course, you are a charity or a halfway house who receives grants for housing high-risk tenants.Yeah, didn't think so.  

Also, if it were me, I'd none on sales presentation skills anticipating a persuasive speech at the political level.

Well, that is very persuasive ... it's also the first time I've heard anyone say they, or someone they know, is getting a significant portion of their STR bookings from direct sales. 

The 3 components to NLP (Neuro, Linguistics and Programing/re- programming) are all you need to understand HOW humans process and store information.Richard Bandler has a course called Persuasion Engineering that is specifically geared towards the business aspect.

One of the nice things about math is it doesn't have to bend to any particular persuasion - liberal or conservative, religious or not, male or female, any dichotomy you want to come up with, math stays the same. 

Never very effective or persuasive.

No matter what you do, what you say, what you offer, or any other persuasive technique you may offer up you can not create motivation when there isn't any.Its kind of like expecting to get a lap dance at church...