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James Borg works as a business consultant and coach and conducts workshops related to body language awareness and "mind control". He has spent his whole life observing body language and has appeared on BBC radio. Borg also contributes to newspapers and magazines regarding body language. He is the mostrar mais award-winning international bestselling author of Persuasion and Mind Power. Borg lives in the United Kingdom. mostrar menos

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Conhecimento Comum

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James Borg presents a quick-fire run through body language. His writing and presentation style are speedy and reminiscent of a presentation to an audience where you have to work to keep their attention. He clearly writes for a corporate male audience - a picture with much cleavage on p.124, none of the illustrations show a woman in a position of power, the humor is directed to a male reader, patronising comments such as "Never underestimate the power of a damsel in distress!" (p. 127), to name a few. He doesn't back any of his quoted psychological experiments up (thus we have no idea just how out of context he may have quoted them). The backflap of the book describes much about him but fails to relay any information on his actual qualifications - making me wonder what exactly they are.
I'd be hesitant to recommend this book: its lack of references, noticable absence of qualification on behalf of the author and distinct male-centered and corporate focus all make me think I'd refer anyone interested in body language to every other book I've read so far.
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Aula | 1 outra resenha | Feb 11, 2012 |
Nothing new, just a recap of stuff you are probably already aware of such as active listening. It's a good reminder of what you should be doing when you interact with others, and it certainly focussed my attention and made me think about how I was dealing with people. But overall it is just the same rehashed self-help stuff seen many times before.
 
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ennui2342 | outras 3 resenhas | Jan 7, 2010 |
Generally a good, well thought out book. A good basis for teaching the elements of successful persuasion. I thought it got significantly weaker at the end when he talks about personality types - its helpful to know the Jung/Myers-Briggs types but then when he starts to talk about how to influence the particular types I skipped over it, then skipped 'types you might meet' too. In my experience, personalities are so diverse that talk of types turns into stereotypes pretty quickly, and no-one I've met has actually been a stereotype. More recently, I read a helpful comment through which to interpret his remarks about Aristotle - he was seeking to influence a single decision of the court, not the behaviour patterns of people in general. That's why pathos wasn't higher on his list.… (mais)
 
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abraxalito | outras 3 resenhas | Aug 27, 2008 |

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10
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