The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life's Game

by Derrick Levasseur

Overview

Discover the Undercover Advantage

In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars.

In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity and working more than a decade in law enforcement, showing readers:

• The power of observation and creating a profile
• The effect of using silence to extract and evaluate information
• The benefits of interpreting body language and developing your sixth sense
• The importance of self-awareness and adapting to your environment
• The value of developing a personal ops plan with a defined mission

Derrick's approach allows readers to create a solid foundation in their lives, build confidence personally and professionally, and push themselves to become stronger, more capable leaders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492667629
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Derrick Levasseur is a retired police sergeant from Central Falls, Rhode Island. Before becoming a supervisor, he was assigned to the Investigative Division, where he spent three years as an undercover detective.

Throughout the course of his career, he received multiple awards, including letters of recognition, unit citations, commendations, and the Medal of Valor.

In addition to his advanced training with interviews and interrogations, Derrick has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in business management.

Through his life experiences, both personal and professional, Derrick has developed an innovative approach to building stronger relationships and achieving personal goals. He used that same approach on the CBS hit series, Big Brother, and is now regarded as one of the greatest to have ever played.

Derrick also starred in the Investigation Discovery hit docu-series, Is OJ Innocent?: The Missing Evidence and Breaking Homicide.

If you want to know more about Derrick and his current projects, follow him on Twitter at @DerrickL, on Instagram at @DerrickVLevasseur, or you can visit his website at www.OfficialDerrick.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Truth xv

Chapter 1 Define Yourself 1

Chapter 2 Know Your Target 25

Chapter 3 Start at Headquarters 47

Chapter 4 Set Your Sights 71

Chapter 5 Exercise Your Right to Remain Silent…But Listen 91

Chapter 6 Find Your "Sixth Sense" 113

Chapter 7 Lead with Confidence 137

Chapter 8 Use Your Head 163

Chapter 9 Turn Police Tactics into Corporate Strategies 185

Chapter 10 Learn from Your Mistakes 203

Chapter 11 Grow through Adversity 223

Chapter 12 Surround Yourself with Inspiration 243

Epilogue Debriefing 263

Endnotes 267

Acknowledgments 271

About the author 275

Editorial Reviews

"Derrick Levasseur walks the reader through his law enforcement career and highlights tips and techniques that can be used by everyday people to gain new insights into social and business encounters. His conversational writing style makes the book easy to read and understand." — Jack Schafer, Ph.D., author of The Like Switch

From the Publisher

10/02/2017
In this debut, Levasseur, a Rhode Island police sergeant, shares hard-won self-help tips, to sometimes gimmicky but generally entertaining effect. “Think of this book as a guided tour of the major lessons I learned as a street cop, a detective, and a supervisor,” he begins. The first step is being honest about your own strengths and weaknesses and those of others. He advises readers to “know your target”—the person on whom you wish to make an impression—such as by remembering his or her birthday. Body language is also key, he teaches. Continuing to indulge in the police-lingo theme a little too insistently, he points out the importance of “headquarters,” or having a happy home life. Leading with confidence is the subject of one of the most appealing lessons. Another of the best lessons is on creative visualization. One of the toughest lessons—one Levasseur learned firsthand after he fatally shot a suspect (and was subsequently cleared by a grand jury)—concerns growing through adversity. He wraps everything up with a succinct “debriefing.” Though the cop-talk conceit can seem hackneyed, Levasseur’s fresh and candid perspective makes for an empowering self-help guide. Agent: Steven Harris, CSG Literary. (Jan. 2018)

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