Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.
Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.
At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.
And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the Russian domestic environment.
