Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Succeed in a Changing World [Hardcover]

Dale Carnegie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1993

It's a tough world out there and you can't count on things getting easier. What you can do is invest in yourself -- and develop your own leadership abilities that will help you achieve greater personal and professional success.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Despite the wealth of technical advances in the 1990s workplace, managing, motivating, and communicating remains a challenge. The Leader in You adapts the simple, time-tested management theories of Dale Carnegie to this high-tech environment with refreshing results. Read in an engaging but direct tone, the tape's pace is varied with excerpts from recent management studies and anecdotes from contemporary business leaders. It's a sound introduction to leadership skills for anyone working in the public, private, or nonprofit sector. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Sharon Griggins --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

Essentially an updating of Dale Carnegie's enormously successful books of the 1930s and '40s ( How to Win Friends and Influence People has thus far sold 30 million copies), this book adds little new material. The major difference is that this effort is more unabashedly focused on influencing people in order to make money, which is logical since the book is aimed at business people. Carnegie's rules are reiterated: be euphoric if you can and, if you can't, at least don't be negative; respect others and try to make them feel praiseworthy and deserving of recognition; listening is just as important as talking, perhaps more so. Business people are advised that they can be leaders if they realize that the pyramidal structure of the corporation is being replaced by teamwork; and if they set goals and keep them constantly in mind, business people have a good chance of realizing their objectives. Thus, while Levine, CEO of Dale Carnegie, and Crom, a vice-president of the firm, offer little that's original, one senses that sales will be excellent.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067179809X
• ISBN-13: 978-0671798093
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing... it is a simple rehash, February 27, 2004

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Shannon Gaw (Roswell, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Succeed in a Changing World (Hardcover)

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.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You'd better off reading How to Win Friends and Infl. People, October 22, 2001

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P. Gimenez "chuos" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Leader in You (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Rewrite of "How to Win Friends and Influence People", July 6, 2003

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Rich M. (Union, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Leader in You (Mass Market Paperback)

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.