Manipulation is part of business?

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Manipulation is the act of modifying, controlling or changing others' behaviour by use of emotional influence to achieve a goal. That goal could be anything from personal gain to simply making someone else happy, but it doesn't necessarily have to benefit only one person. Manipulation is often misunderstood as being wise or smart. Deceiving people for personal gain might work for some time but in the long run, you'll lose all that you gathered with deceit. You'll lose the trust and respect of your friends, family, coworkers and finally your own self-respect.

Nobody likes to be manipulated. Manipulators lie, deceive, take advantage and cheat. They do these things, not for the greater good but for personal gain.

The main point of manipulation is to control someone's mind to make them think, act or feel a way that's favourable to your desires. This can be done through lies, false promises or other tactics that would make someone do whatever you want them to. Manipulators are people with an unbalanced mentality which cause them to take advantage of people for their own personal gain.

Sometimes as lovers of words we do it unconsciously, we usually do get carried away in the right sentence structure and use of words rather than the motive behind it.

When you are manipulative, you are tricking people into doing things they do not want to do. Manipulation is a way to make others want what you want.

Dynamic Manipulation is a way to get yourself to want something.

Manipulation is lies.

Manipulation is a shortcut to the top that leaves the world worse than it was when you started.

Whether you are selling an agenda or trying to stay out of jail, manipulation only hurts you in the end. Just stop it.

To get things done, we have to persuade people to buy into our idea. There’s nothing wrong with persuasion but can be done without adding lies or trying to downgrade others or discredit others' work just to sell ours. Though most people will say the nature of their work leave room for manipulation, especially in the marketing business, where you have to beat so many competitions.

If you don’t, you’re most likely not going to get that thing done.

If you do, you’ll be manipulating them into caring about what it is that you care about.

There are always consequences to our actions. And if you’re not careful, those consequences can be extremely devastating. That’s why, when we lie to others, the damage we do is likely to come back to us in one way or another.

When you are deceitful over a long period it will come back at you and people will not trust anything you say. When people start to lose faith in you it can be very dangerous. People used to lie to get out of trouble, but lying has become such a problem that it no longer helps you. It can hurt your future, and the problem with lying is that when people discover your lies, they lose faith in you and doubt everything you say. You may have felt that the lies were helping you at the moment, but they will cause problems later on and could lead to even bigger issues. The solution is, to tell the truth, as you will have nothing to hide and so there's nothing to fear.

If you don’t want all that you’ve built for a long time to crumble in the twinkle of an eye, you have to come out open in whatever you doing, being manipulative will only cost you a lot.

Thanks for Reading! ✍ 💚🤗

Today’s article is short and somehow out of sort. Pardon me, my emotions are everywhere. So many things happening at the same time, but I’m working on it. Also, I’m doing a little research about some things, trying not to take drastic steps or take steps prematurely. In the next few days, I hope to get a result. For now, it’s back to the drawing board.

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"Manipulation" this topic was discussed in a group chat I am in; few days back, an argument ensued on the term "positive manipulation." I kept wondering how manipulating someone could be positive. I'm grateful I read this. It has further clarified all my doubts. What is bad is bad.

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2 years ago

Controlling one's mind is an ethical act. Who are we to manipulate other people? We're just influencing other's behaviour which is not supposed to happen because we are stealing their rights.

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2 years ago

They manipulate to gain customer. It is bad that is why we need DYOR to know.

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2 years ago

Maybe some business is manipulative not just to their employees but also to their costumers. So we must know who among them is which and who among them is not.

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2 years ago

Manipulation is a bad habit, that has taken it roots among some traders and business men and women. They do so thinking of how to make profit but on the long run they are only damaging their business and reputation.

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2 years ago

Nobody likes to be manipulated, and I think that's one of the things that bothers me the most. I prefer to stay away from manipulative people because in the end we always end up hurt or doing things we don't want to do.

Cheers, HappyBoy!

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2 years ago

Some kind of trick in my guess which we use to influence someone's thought & act.

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2 years ago

People that can easily manipulate people are does that sell things on the run or people that sell product on the bus, sometimes I wonder if they actually study such deceit in a school

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2 years ago

Manipulation can be use in business if only the manipulator is pure hearted and wants to control and lead the top mind of the person which might be regarded as customer.

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2 years ago

You're right, but i think there's a difference between manipulation and persuasion.

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2 years ago

Deceitfulness makes people to distrust you! This remembered me of a rice seller in my town, who would always compress his measuring vessel so as reduce the quantity of rice it will take in, he kept deceiving his buyers, but when they caught him they stopped patronizing him.

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2 years ago

If someone gets addicted to manipulating others, it gets dangerous.. That person is slowly growing more wicked without him or her knowing it. :)

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I remember when my boss told me about himself on being cheated, he if anyone is cheating him, the person should do it smartly and codedly because the moment he finds out, that'll be the end

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2 years ago

A good deed in business. There is no place for manipulation here.

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2 years ago

I think so, that is part of a business to manipulate in a entrainment way.

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2 years ago

Honestly, I don't know how some people do it, but I really feel restless whenever I lie to a person, talkmore of deliberately doing something that would hurt that person thru manipulation and mischief.. I guess we are all wired differently. And just as you put: only the truth could surely set one free. Not forgetting that we all will definitely reap what we had sown one day

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