Secrets of Power Conversation

Talk Your Way to Riches, Respect, and Romance.

Secrets of Power Conversation is a one-stop source of practical advice and methods for handling any conversational situation or problem—family, social, or business. It is a thorough review of all categories of verbal skill, nothing left out, nothing abbreviated, literally packed with genuinely useful information. This book will become one of the foundations of success in your career and personal life.

In clear, plain language that's entertaining and often humorous, Secrets of Power Conversation gives you much more than just the simple ability to chat comfortably with others. Because verbal skills determine your relations with the people around you, most of life's successes and problems depend on the quality of your communication skills.

Here is a book filled with ideas and skills that will allow you to make friends quickly, earn respect, persuade and sell your ideas, talk easily with others (even total strangers), tell a good story, negotiate the best deal, cause people to trust and open up to you, avoid making enemies, get your needs met, handle social situations with style, and advance rapidly in your career.

Secrets of Power Conversation is also designed as a reference book that you can go to for ready solutions to whatever communication problem confronts you at the moment. Asking for a raise today? Need to persuade your boss to accept an idea you've developed? Have to handle someone who is angry or disappointed? Going to a party where you'll meet lots of strangers? For these situations, and hundreds of others, simply read the appropriate section of the book, and then go take care of business.

Lawrence Bjornson has earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a masters degree in administration, both from the University of California.

During his career, he has seen corporate America from both administrative and sales/marketing perspectives, working for Merrill Lynch as an investment advisor and for Bristol-Myers and Johnson & Johnson. More recently, he has been a consultant to a variety of firms, including entrepreneurial startups.

His wide-ranging business experience, natural curiosity, and critical eye for human behavior and its consequences have given him a multitude of valuable insights into human nature. These insights combined with meticulous research and interviews with hundreds of successful achievers have led him to write the two books featured in this site.

His goal is to make the best practices of successful individuals, past and present, available to everyone who is devoted to success and achievement.