Deference is soft power.
It’s contradictory, which is why so few use this strategy. And why those who do win so disproportionally.
“The more the muscles relaxed,” Bruce Lee writes, “the more power they could generate.” It was a pullback before a push forward. A give before a take. A soft before a hard.
So, how do you leverage your own soft power?
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