As a follow-up to last week’s post on influence, I thought I’d share two articles I found very fascinating. They offer quite different perspectives on how to get what we want. Which approach do you think is best? Should we simply try out best to always be nice and let that be the end of it? Or do we need to resort to somewhat firmer tactics in order to have our way?

(Eugene Yiga is the editor of Varsity Blah and his latest book is available free, exclusively from www.varsityblah.com/about)