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Create Dramatic Tension to Persuade Your Audience
January 04, 2013

All good presentations — like all good stories — convey and resolve some kind of conflict ...

Adapted from the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.

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The object of gamification is not to make everything into a game. Rather it's using game design elements in non-game situations. It can be as simple as LinkedIn's profile completion percentage bar, or one of the many "buy ten get one free" cards I have in my wallet.

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