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The Leader in You

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Having twice completed the original "How to Win Friends and Influence People", I found 75% of this is a rehash. The other 25% was mostly modern anecdotes that support the original author's theories. I found little original material.

The Leader in You just takes the issues pointed out at How to Win Friends and Influence People and gives more updated examples related to the business world.
I really doens't add much value if you have read How to Win Friends... which, by the way, is much more fun and is better written.

This is a re-write of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Stuart Levin, the CEO of Dale Carnegie and Associates, Inc. Unfortunately, the new book is an empty shell of the original -- it's already dated, although it was published in 1993, while the original, first published in the 1930's, is as fresh and as relevant as it was the day it was first printed. Recommend skipping this lesser imitation and sticking with the original.

This book is an excellent training tool for the new supervisor. Far too many people are placed in a supervisory position with a five minute ceremony called "the promotion", yet they are never taught HOW to supervise people. If you want to teach the people responsible for motivating others on how to motivate, how to treat their staff and colleagues, and how to get along in today's business world, this is a great book.

This book is an awe inspiring book describing ways to get people to like you, trust you, invest in you and have faith in you and your judgement. I've never read a book that actually makes you want to meet others, listen to other and motivate others. I'mm not actually a director of a business nor a salesman, so I presumed I wouldn't benefit from this book. I was wrong, in that this book is designed for all people in all walks of life, to help improve your communication skills from human to human. A great great book. Free from jargon, with great, thought provoking examples

"The Leader in You" is one of the valuable books, written by Dale Carnegie, but I believe that "How to win Friends and Influence people" is much more important to read, because it leads the reader to find the leader in him, in different social relations, and not only on the business terms. "The Leader in You", in my opinion, is considered a review of "How to Win Friends and Influence People". So if you are interested in reading "The Leader in You", don't buy it, but buy "How to Win Friends and Influence People", as it will attract your attention more. In the "Leader in You" you get introduced to the best ways that you should use in order to be a successful leader.
After reading the two books, I believe that they carry on the same themes, which are to be nice, moderate, and to praise people in order to get what you want. Through these ways and through many other ways, Dale Carnegie gets the reader to deal with people in a very successful way, so that they can make other people want what they (the leaders) want, and by that way they can be successful leaders, as they will always get what they want and they will always have people helping them, not because they fear them but because they love dealing with them, with their leaders. It is a book that helps any person to be a leader, not through power and evil means but by nice and precise attitudes towards others.

When I first read that book, I got the impression that it is contradicting the Machiavellian way of thinking. Machiavelli, in "The Prince" argues that a successful leader should always try to be feared and loved by people, and if the leader failed to be loved and feared, then he would better focus on one character, which is to be feared.
On the other hand, today, the perspective of being a successful leader is totally different, and that is obvious when you get introduced to Carnegie's perspective, as his argument proves that in order to be a successful leader, you have to be loved but not feared. Also, through his two books, which I mentioned above, you can learn how people think and how you can deal with them to get what you aim for.

Finally, I got very impressed by "The Leader in You", but because I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", I found how they are very much typical, and I found that "The Leader in You" is considered a great book, but "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is much organized, and is better written than "The Leader in You". That is why I would recommend that you would better buy "How to Win Friends and Influence People".

The Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World by Stuart R. Levine and Michael A. Crom is, by all considerations, an excellent book. Following in the fashion of Dale Carnegie, Levine and Crom tell readers in a concise, straight-to-the-point manner the truth about leadership. This truth is that good leadership truly equals good communication.
Some of the key aspects to valuable communication skills resulting in effective and successful leadership are motivating people, expressing genuine interest in others, listening to learn, and respecting the dignity of others. In each chapter, Crom and Levine make extensive use of examples, usually coming by way of business success stories, or even excerpts from anecdotes of the lives of well-known individuals or important CEOs such as Denis Potvin of the New York Islanders hockey team, or Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. Personally, I found these examples extremely helpful and motivating throughout the course of reading The Leader in You, for through them Crom and Levine show how the principles they tell the reader are effective, and truly are.
Furthermore, The Leader in You is a valuable read to anyone who seeks success both in his or her professional and personal lives, not just the business executive or the worker climbing his way up the corporate ladder. I found this to be the case because the tenets Levine and Crom give the reader really concern fostering lasting and trusting relationships with others, not just shortcuts to getting ahead in the company. I have learned valuable information and lessons about talking a walk in the other person's shoes, the importance of being personally happy before I can ever hope to be professionally successful, and what it truly means to be a good listener. This is a book that will have a lasting effect on many aspects of my life, and I would without a doubt recommend it to anyone, for there will undoubtedly be a takeaway for everyone in any walk of life.

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 most of the useful management books on the market today. Certainly among the more academic books you will findmore material which is inherently useful to higher level managers and professionals but in the context of middle and line management, the central tenents hold true. To name just two, good listening skills, and trying to see things from the perspectives of others are golden rules from which none of use should deviate.

Indeed, one is almost tempted to say that these are the sort of things that should be taught in schools as components of civics classes except that I am sure many others would agree, schools should concentrate on getting basic skills right before they release students into the world of work.

The leader in you is a useful book to read. It is an easy read and one that shoul not take too long to work through and the simple down to earth homily approach works well with most people.

While not the be all and end all of all management books, this slim little volume contains some simple lessons that all managers would do well to digest and apply in all their dealings with other people and I can think of a few who need to rediscover this book right now.

Basically, not a lot of new concepts in here.

If you want the gist, it's How to Win Friends and Influence People, combined with Covey's Seven Habits for Highly Successful People, with a dash of Tom Peters thrown in for excitement.

This is a well put-together book, though. There are interesting examples cited, and these ideas can not be emphasized enough -- across the spectrum. Girl Scout Troop Leaders need this book as much as CFOs and sales reps.

All in all, worth a read.

THE LEADER IN YOU is a blueprint for success. This book teaches you how to influence people. Most of all, this book reminds us all what motivates people to live in positive ways. Dale Carnegie lays out ways you and I can be inspired by values that motivate us toward goodness and higher aspirations in soulful living. This book will inspire more than success. It will move your heart toward living well in the world. -- Samuel Oliver, author of, WHAT THE DYING TEACH US: LESSONS ON LIVING.