How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
by R. Philip Hanes

"If you follow the advice in How to Get Anyone to Do Anything you can run the country. Or you can settle in for a delightful time with a man whose intelligence, humor, and wisdom have made him one of America's most influential citizens. In his company, you will find riches. Congratulations, old friend, on a perfectly charming and most wise book."
--Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird

"Phil Hanes has distilled the lessons of a long and productive life into a wonderful tale filled with pithy anecdotes and useful observations about how to accomplish your goals. It's a book well worth reading."
--David Rockefeller, Sr., former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank, former chairman, New York Museum of Modern Art

"Phil, I cannot tell you how many people I tell about your vitality, energy, and thirst for knowledge, and your love of literature, art, music, conservation, and so much more. You are a genuine Renaissance man."
--Tom Johnson, former publisher and CEO, Los Angeles Times, former chairman and CEO, CNN

"This may be classes as a how-to book, but it should really go into the biography section of the library, for it's full to the brim with Phil Hanes's life and learning, his imagination, his humanity. If you want to learn how to network yourself into the 'win' column, read this book!"
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti, artist and poet

"There's more insight, humor, and good common sense in How to Get Anyone to Do Anything than there is in the entire Congressional Record. It's a Poor Richard's Almanac for our time."
--James V. Kimsey, founding CO, America Online, Inc.

"This is such an infectious book! It made me want to rush straight out and get someone to do something -- at once!"
--Rosemary Harris, actress; Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner

"Never has any nation had available so many resources. We are a nation of leaders. All of us - any of us - can be leaders or people who achieve great things. Yet we don't realize our capacity. This book can be a jump starter for all of you.”
--T. George Harris, Editor of Psychology Today; founder American Health, Spirituality & Health, PBS Bodywatch series; founding advisor to Beliefnet.com; former Editor of Harvard Business Review, new product adviser to Proctor & Gamble

"Over the past twenty years, Phil and I have debated networking and influencing people from two very different career views. Phil wins! Now, he has put the recipes on paper, and leaders who are wise will heed his advice."
--Thomas F. Metz, Lieutenant General, US Army
Commanding General, Multi-National Corps-Iraq

"Phil Hanes is a visionary whose generosity and humor are evident on every page. To truly understand the power of connection and inspired thinking and learn how to succeed over what appear to be insurmountable odds, you need only to read this book.

"His ideas, enthusiasm, and dedication add life to Winston-Salem and the entire region. With visionary leaders such as Phil Hanes our job in North Carolina will become so much easier and the possibilities so much greater."
--Angelos Angelou, Principal and Chief Economist, Angelou Economics, Austin Texas: A consulting firm addressing the needs of the technology industry and the communities seeking to recruit them

"The many anecdotes that Hanes recounts in How to Get Anyone to Do Anything (Ten Speed Press, 2006) contain a wealth of sound strategies for jump-starting the seemingly impossible. The city's future movers and shakers would do well to study them."
--Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal (Click here to read the entire article)

"This book is infectious, a definite must-read."
--Leadership-tools.com (Click here to read the entire review)

Endorsements

"Thank you for your presentation to our Leadership Winston-Salem class on "How to Get Anyone to do Anything” this week. You had class participants on the edge of their seats! Your points hit home exactly what this program is all about – taking the initiative to get involved on an individual level. And to start something if it’s not out there yet!"
--Jo Ellen Carson, Executive Director, Leadership Winston-Salem

"R. Philip Hanes, winner of NASAA's 2005 Founders Award, former CEO of Hanes Companies and first Chairman of the North Carolina Arts Council

"In this book, Hanes shares his strategies for how to jump-start the impossible by recounting a lifetime's worth of experience doing just that. Divided into four parts -- Networking, Risk-Taking, Fund-Raising, and Problem-Solving -- How to Get Anyone to Do Anything will inspire readers to see challenging opportunities instead of insurmountable odds. A great read by one of America's preeminent arts champions!"
--National Assembly of State Arts Agencies