From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App

You can win life’s popularity contests

The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, buy from them, marry them, and spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By raising your likeability factor.

The more you are liked, the happier your life will be. In The Likeability Factor, business guru Tim Sanders shows how to build your likeability factor by teaching you how to enhance four critical elements of your personality:

• Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others

• Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs

• Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings

• Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity

When you improve these areas and boost your likeability factor, you bring out the best in others, handle life’s challenges with grace, enjoy better health, and excel in your daily roles. You can win the close calls and tight competitions that define and determine success and happiness at work and in life—The Likeability Factor can show you how!

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Love Revolution Continued...
Comment: What if everyone on the planet practiced "likeability"? We'd live in a far different world, I'll tell you that. After reading The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders, I did a little experiment. I tried, for just one day, to implement what Tim outlines in the book. And it turned out to be one of the best days I've had in a long time. Not only did I feel good about nearly every encounter I had, but I believe those I came in contact with felt equally good. That, for me, is revolutionary: Our everyday behavior can change the world! Tim Sanders is suggesting nothing less that a "better world" revolution, and I for one, am in. The Likeability Factor takes Love Is The Killer App to the next level. And as in that book, Sanders doesn't just propose an idea, he gives step-by-step instructions and real world examples. With the four elements of likeability: Friendliness, Relevance, Empathy, and Realness - and the almost overly simple "observe no unfriendliness" mandate, it is easy to see that this could actually work. I recommend this book to anyone who yearns for a happier, more purposeful life, and who dreams of living in a world that's a little friendlier, a little nicer, and a little warmer.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Incredibly disappointing
Comment: I so resent hyper-critical reviews, and know I won't agree with them. I agree with them. I wanted so much from this book; it delivered so little. I admit there were one or two excellent sentences. Excellent. But the rest? I read it because I was so angry I'd spent the money.

I know the author enjoyed writing it, but I am not a library file for a collection of footnoted proofs.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Compelling ideas, but what the heck do they mean in practice ?
Comment: First, no doubt there is a personality style that we all know as easy to like. But, is "like-ability" sufficient ? As a stand alone character trait is may have a comforting, attractive quality, in life it must be coupled with other traits, such as dynamism, intellectual rigor, mature self awareness for this abilty to be liked quality to have any lasting meaning.

As we read with alarming frequency in the current literature, Hare, Stout, et al. , there are plenty of people out there who seem likable enough, who have an excess of charm and a deficiency of ethics. In the worst case these are known as sociopaths, or those with a complex admixture of sociopathic personality traits and acceptable traits.

Which ultimately leads us to a fascinating contradiction. We may be drawn to someone on the basis of an emotional attractiveness, and yet repelled when we discover their agenda, and in other cases we may be initially put off by someone's critical stance towards life, demanding proof before emotional investment, and yet unlimately finding the second case far more trustworthy and satisfying.

In this sense, there is an intrinsic tension between Charisma, the spirit of the moment, and Character, the unfolding of the true self over time. One may ultimately come to the conclusion that the admirable person may not be as invested in being likable in a glib, two dimensional sense, nonetheless, over time that person's company, advice, and general sense of standards in life may be vastly more impressive than treacle and cardboard of feelgood in the moment glad handing.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: L-Factor is the key element of Biz Success
Comment: The L-Factor of what Tim calls "Likeability" is the key element of success in business or personal relationships. As a therapist and business consultant for 25 years I believe that this approach will guide you toward a more fun and fulfilling way of life. I can't say enough good about the power of this resource as Tim coaches you toward a strategic approach that will sharpen your ability to instantly connect with others to achieve greater results. This is must reading if you are struggling in your career, and essential reading if you are just getting started because once you know how to use the secrets of the "L-Factor" you will avoid problems to rapidly reach your potential. Pick it up and read it twice!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Who Doesn't Like Likeability?
Comment: Tim Sanders does a great job with his book "The Likeability Factor" in showing business executives that their personality, and how others see them, really will make a difference in the bottom line. Being liked leads to opportunities, and Sander's uses his personal experiences (I have met him, he is very likeable), research and his easy writing style to educate the reader on how to improve their "L-Factor"

We all have limited time, but this book is worth the time investment to read it, take notes, do the exercises, and incorporate the wisdom into our daily lives.

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