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The Leader in You
by Dale Carnegie
from Pocket

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• almost complete re-hash of previous Carnegie's great books.
  I am a big fan of dale Carnegie's books, but its disappointing that the publishers would like to cream the public their money by re-printing mostly the same stuff with different titles.
  "How to win friends and influence people" and "how to stop worrying and start living" covers most of the content described in this book. i felt cheated when i bought and read this book. Looks like the publishers haven't read any of these 2 great books and gained some wisdom from them.
  

• rehash but may be a useful reminder
  Stuart Levine and Michael Crom of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. discuss their perspectives on the principles that Dale outlined earlier.
  1. Be yourself, identify your strengths.
  2. Be open, create an environment conducive to trust, see things from other person's point of view, listen well, and communicate tirelessly
  3. Express genuine interest in others, recognize a job well done.
  4. Teams: create a shared purpose, invite participation, share the glory and accept the blame, build... more info

• Collection of condescending cliches stressing the obvious
  I found this book (I listened to the audio version) to be a major disappointment. The tips offered by Carnegie may have appeared insightful and provocative to assembly line supervisors back in the 1930s, but in the more enlightened 21st century a lot of his "good advice" comes across as irritatingly simplistic and sometimes even downright condescending and offensive. It's so easy and straightforward: Be nice to people, remember their first names, always be positive and you will instantly be liked by... more info

• Back to Basics
  This little book is recommended reading in the company I currently work for and unlike some of the other recommendations, Fish and Moving My Cheese for instance, this has some value.
  It is, in essence, an updated version of How to Win Friends and Influence People, adapted for the present day and readers who have read the former work will gain little from this except some familiarity with more contemporary case studies.
  What struck me as I was going over it was how central the basic messages are to... more info

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