Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Influence and Persuasion (HBR Emotional Intelligence)
Harvard Business Review · 2023
🎙 Narrated by Tim Lounibos and Rebecca Lam (Ascent Audio production)
72/100
👍 Worth It
This volume earns its keep — contributions from Robert Cialdini and other named experts give the persuasion frameworks real weight, even if the essay format repeats some ground between contributors. The dual-narrator Ascent Audio reading is a solid, professional listen worth your time.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Ascent Audio dual-narrator reading (Tim Lounibos & Rebecca Lam), consistent with the series' well-produced standard.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing62
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read68
Penny’s verdict72
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