Powertalk! : how to speak it, think it, and use it /
Jeffrey Eisen and Pat Farley
- New York : Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1984.
- xi, 210 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
1. Conversation and the power dimension -- 2. Test your power quotient -- 3. Emphatics: the way powertalkers say what they think -- 4. Power words from power worlds -- 5. The powertalk delivery -- 6. The powertalk style -- 7. Powertalkers use the sound of reason -- 8. Taking power -- 9. Rebalancing the power in your life -- 10. Powertalk and the outside world -- 11. Powertalk between family, friends, and lovers -- 12. Powertalk in business -- 13. Powertalking your way into a raise and promotion -- 14. Powertalk salesmanship -- 15. From powertalk to personal power.
Powertalk and subtalk are both standard English, but they are spoken in distinctive and different ways. People construct their sentences differently, choose different vocabulary, and speak with a different cadence and intonation.