Human Relations Principle #23: Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. (“How to criticize—and not be hated for it.”) (This is the twenty-third in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of Dale Carnegie’s timeless, life-changing principles for dealing with people. (Adapted from How to Win Friends and Influence People.))* Calling attention to […]
Human Relations Principle #22: Begin with praise and honest appreciation. (“If you must find fault, this is the way to begin.”) (This is the twenty-second in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of Dale Carnegie’s timeless, life-changing principles for dealing with people. (Adapted from How to Win Friends and Influence People.))* […]
“I have never found that pay alone would either bring together or hold good people. I think it was the game itself.” ~Harvey Firestone Human Relations Principle #21: Throw down a challenge. (“When nothing else works, try this.“) (This is the twenty-first in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of […]
Human Relations Principle #20: Dramatize your ideas. Movies do it. TV does it. Why don’t you do it? (This is the twentieth in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of Dale Carnegie’s timeless, life-changing principles for dealing with people. (Adapted from How to Win Friends and Influence People.))* This is the […]
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” ~J.P. Morgan Human Relations Principle #19: Appeal to the nobler motives. (“An appeal that everybody likes.”) (This is the nineteenth in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of Dale Carnegie’s timeless, life-changing principles for […]
“Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.” ~Dale Carnegie Human Relations Principle #18: Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. (“What everybody wants.”) (This is the eighteenth in a series of articles where I will encapsulate […]
“Success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other persons’ viewpoint.” ~Dale Carnegie Human Relations Principle #17: Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view. (“A formula that will work wonders for you.”) (This is the seventeenth in a series of articles where I will […]
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Human Relations Principle #16: Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. (“How to get cooperation.”) (This is the sixteenth in a series of articles where I […]
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.” ~La Rochefoucauld, French philosopher Human Relations Principle #15: Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. (“The safety valve in handling complaints.”) (This is the fifteenth in a series of articles where I will […]
“He who treads softly goes far.” ~Chinese Proverb Human Relations Principle #14: Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately. (“The secret of Socrates.”) (This is the fourteenth in a series of articles where I will encapsulate each of Dale Carnegie’s timeless, life-changing principles for dealing with people. (Adapted from How […]