How to Become A Person of Influence

(Forbes first published my article here.)

Business circles are buzzing often these days about influence. Who has it? Who lacks it? Why people need it? Often, the conversations sound as if influence were a commodity you could buy at the local store or install on your laptop. Although it’s not that easy, people have more influence than they realize. They simply fail to recognize opportunities to exercise it.

Far too many people “walk in the shadows” so to speak. That is, they think they can’...