Motivation on the Run

This is an interesting look at the classic book by Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. I like this review because of its quirky nature and different approach to a well known book and author. If you’ve always wanted to know what all the hub-bub was about, this article will fill you in.

Second helpings – Times 2 – Times Online

Seventy years after it first appeared, Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help manual How to Win Friends and Influence People is being republished in a new edition. Is it still relevant?

The very title has a creepy feel. How to win friends and influence people? Surely you don’t win friends, you make them. Friends aren’t supposed to be trophies. And though many of us would like to influence people, I would feel very sheepish if I were caught reading a book that was so obviously telling me how to go about the task. Not only would it make me look even more shifty than I am, it would also suggest that I am too stupid or lazy to devise my own strategies for manipulating those around me.

You agree, of course? Well, that’s a pity — because I have just influenced you into dismissing arguably the most successful self-help manual of all time.

[tags]motivation, leadership, Dale Carnegie, book, Win, Influence[/tags]