The Three Drives

ebook How Power Players Manipulate Your Deepest Needs to Control You · Motivation

By The Mind Tools

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The Three Drives: How Power Players Manipulate Your Deepest Needs to Control You

Stop being a puppet in someone else's game.

Every day, people with power use your deepest psychological drives against you. They know you better than you know yourself. They profit from your needs. They control your choices. And you have no idea it's happening.

What You'll Learn:

  • The Three Core Drives: Achievement, Affiliation, and Power - how each one controls your behavior and how others exploit them.
  • Psychological Warfare: Real techniques used by bosses, politicians, and power brokers to manipulate your decisions.
  • Power Recognition: How to spot who has real power and who's just pretending.
  • Who Needs This Book?

  • Corporate Climbers: Tired of watching less qualified people get promoted while you work harder.
  • Entrepreneurs: Want to build influence and control in your business and personal life.
  • Anyone Serious About Power: Ready to stop being manipulated and start doing the manipulating.
  • Why This Isn't Another Self-Help Book:

    This is based on McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory - real psychology used by Fortune 500 companies and political machines. No motivational fluff. No feel-good nonsense. Just the raw truth about how human drives work and how to use them.

    What You'll Get:

  • Real Case Studies: How LBJ passed civil rights, how Steve Jobs controlled his team, how political machines really work.
  • Practical Techniques: Immediate strategies you can use in your job, relationships, and business.
  • Defense Strategies: How to protect yourself from others trying to control you.
  • The Brutal Truth:

    Most people are driven by needs they don't understand. Achievers chase recognition and stay trapped in middle management. Affiliation seekers sacrifice their goals to be liked. Only power seekers understand the real game.

    Which type are you? And more importantly - who's using that against you?

    Get your copy now and stop being controlled by people who understand you better than you understand yourself.

    The Three Drives