suasion

I haven't read that one, but I read is Pre-suasion last year, and it was definitely an eyeopener.

PG clearly wants to discourage demote piling-on; he first tried through suasion and when that failed now enforces in software the -8 floor.

Moral suasion does not work and has never worked to promote environmental objectives.

" The concept is called upward-suasion, and was designed 200 years ago to dispel common myths and stereotypes about blacks at the time.

Since there's no followup or moral suasion, a month later nothing has changed except that the sales team has found different "dump stats" for achieving their goals.

I prefer the 'shadow' authority of presidential suasion.

In some environments that authority can be normal social suasion, but in others it needs to be explicitly regulatory.

They want to hack the legal code, instead of obeying fuzzy norms, common sense, suasion, and avoiding hacks that are seem too good to be true, they are magnetically attracted to these hacks.

And they tried moral suasion, they tried everything in the world, and finally somebody got the happy thought that they were paying the night shift by the hour, and that maybe if they paid them by the shift, the system would work better.

I understand that there were many factors playing into the move toward equality of the sexes, such as wars that required society to use women's labour, but by-and-large it was an incredibly large shift accomplished through moral suasion rather than violence.

The book "Pre-suasion" by Robert Cialdini describes how for example, showing certain imagery before asking a person to make a choice produces specified effects - for example, showing flags before posing a question usually elicits a response that tends to be more aligned with Republican viewpoints.