Actions for effective influencing

	"The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly."
	--William Bernbach, Advertising Director

Influence is often about big issues and situations, but it is also about small things that occur everyday in business. Our virtual world is opening each of us up to a much more global perspective, where we encounter a diverse range of cultures and people. We can use our more introverted nature and those behaviors we are comfortable with to more easily find the success we want in business.

For one thing, cultures you may now be in contact and communicating with may also be more introverted than your immediate environment. This will mean more common ground with behaviors like thinking things...