How to make it easier for people to do business with you

David Rock says there are 5 buttons we can press on humans that result in derailing, disruptive behaviour. We literally fight, flee or freeze – none of them particularly useful when collaborating!

The buttons are:

  • Status
  • Certainty
  • Autonomy
  • Relationships
  • Fairness

For many years I could be a bit tricky to work with – people assumed I was status driven and rewarded me on that basis, but in fact I’m autonomy-driven – so being told what to do and publicly praised for doing it just made me more disruptive! 


Once I worked out that I needed to make up my own mind about things, and I worked out how to signal to others to avoid pressing that button, I was suddenly waaaaaay easier to do business with.

Clever Dr. Rock.

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