There’s a scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the mother and aunt are conspiring to get the father to agree to an idea.
Rather than ask him directly, for fear he’ll say no, they have to make him think it was his idea all along.
Funny, yes, but an important insight, too.
Because what they are trying to avoid is something called “reactance”.
In other words, if you tell me what to do I’m going to do the opposite!
Reactance is a big problem in business...
A painting has been in the news recently.
Gina Reinhart, one of Australia’s wealthiest people, has petitioned the National Gallery of Australia to have the work removed.
Perversely, her request has generated so much media attention that many more people have seen the Vincent Namatjira painting than would have otherwise.
Barbra Streisand knows this all too well.
In 2003 she took legal action to remove an aerial image of her property from the twelve thousand other properties on...
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