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Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel Paperback – January 1, 1985

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Originally published in 1985, this bestselling, essential book about management and motivation has over 1 million copies in print and remains relevant for today.

Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the award-winning, international bestseller The Friendship Factor, studied great leaders throughout history, the most effective organizations of modern times, and prominent psychologists to culminate a wealth of motivational tips and ideas. In this book are 12 practical principles to help anyone -- parent, manager, teacher, friend -- motivate, inspire, influence, and build enthusiasm.

Mastering the art of motivation and improving relational habits isn't easy but McGinnis includes encouragement alongside real-life examples to relay life application for any scenario. Every chapter is a must-read with deeper revelations on specific topics and powerful ways to focus one's energy toward change and improvement.

People management, team-building, individual assessment, goal setting, accountability, and dealing with trouble-makers are just a few of the topics covered in the highly accessible chapters. McGinnis' positive and strengths-based approach inspires momentous change, allowing individuality and input along the way. Bringing out the best starts with you, and then you can bring out the best in others.

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Alan Loy McGinnis (1933-2005) was a best-selling author, family therapist, business consultant, and popular speaker. After a twenty year career as a minister, he became a counselor and co-founded the Valley Counseling Center in Glendale, CA. In the 1970s, he began researching friendship and authored The Friendship Factor, published by Augsburg Fortress in 1979 and revised in 2004. A popular speaker, he also authored more than fifty articles and several more books, including Bringing Out the Best in People, Confidence, and The Balanced Life, all published by Augsburg Fortress.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Augsburg Books; Anniversary edition (January 1, 1985)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806621516
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806621517
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.81 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.45 x 8 inches

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Frankie Lawrence

Works great!

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022

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Using this in my car. I've added some ambient lighting using the 4 usb slots. Works great!

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bishop

Love it

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022

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I lil this book it challenges you to become a better leader 9/10

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How to succeed without lettings ethics get in your way

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2005

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I fault this book for many reasons. First, the title is misleading. This is not a book about helping other people. It is basically a motivational book about how to succeed when working with others. The approach is to use numerous motivational anecdotes weaved into the author's 12-point approach. The author, has a blatant disregard of ethics. He doesn't ignore ethics, on the contrary, he often argues against them, frequently railing against idealists for their impractical approach. For example, "the idealists might suppose that the only way to inspire people is to appear to their benevolent instincts, but the best motivators usually appeal to anger as well." Another example: "For all our talk about love, I have never seen a congregation genuinely fired up which did not have the conviction that they fighting a common enemy." But whatever works is what we should do, and damn the "idealists." When McGinnis advocates truly helping others, it is always because it works to your own advantage from a practical standpoint. Appeals to pride are also common in this book, he even relates a story from his own past: " . . . I remember 35 years later my deep pride as he chewed out certain members of the team for poor performances . . . the coached praised me before the team." The exultation of pride is reprehensible, especially since McGinnis is purportedly a Christian. Since antiquity, Pride has been one of the seven deadly sins of Chrisitanity; the great popular Christian author C.S. Lewis rails eloquently against it, devoting a chapter to it in "Mere Christianity," calling it the cardinal sin. For McGinnis, all this ancient wisdom is simply "idealism" or he simply ignores it. My final complaint is that some of the information is simply inaccurate. For example, he states that "Most studies show that parents who run a tight ship and who are fairly strict produce the most secure children". This is dead wrong. The vast majority of modern psychology and research is dead against this approach; i.e. see T. Berry Brazelton, or virtually any other of book written by a mainstream M.D. or psychologist. As with all McGinnis's statements, he provides no research to back it up.
The appeal to non-benovolent (e.g. malevolent) instincts, the denigration of the Christian ideal of love, and the exaltation of the cardinal sin of pride display a pattern of disregard for ethics and the worship of the practical.

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Richard M

Good pointers to promote boss-employee relations

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019

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I bought this book with the intention of developing better skill sets to cultivate supervisor-employee relationships in the public sector workplace. It turns out the book has many important ideas to help create a team-oriented spirit of cooperation. This book can ultimately change the mindset of even the most rigid managers. I personally used the strategies in this short book to cultivate better workplace rapport. I combined the information in this book with my own plan to create an environment conducive to training and professional development for my employees. Although I am still working on this plan I am happy with the outcome at this point. I discovered it is less stressful and more advantageous to demonstrate positive thinking patterns along with regular instruction to keepbeveruone in the loop as to management's expectations.

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ELT

Amazing Book

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019

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Principled and practical, the book was well balanced with marvelous real-life examples of the insightful points brought out by McGinnis. Can’t recommend it enough! A must-read for leaders and teams especially, and everyone can get some really good life principles since... we all are interacting with our families, communities, and one another. Every chapter was useful, whether it be digging deeper revelations on a topic I thought I understood, to reminders on how to refocus my energies.
May you be blessed as I was.

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Always been a favorite

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2013

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Read this years ago while studying leadership at college. (A few more years than I care to admit).
It is one of those rare books that is infinitely marked by the generous and well meaning demeanor of the author. McGinnis clearly has everyone's best interests at heart and a beautiful and studious insight into the human condition and the field of battle into which the leader enters.
The dynamics are simply and directly applied to anyone's context and I enjoy the raw absence of contemporary psychological jargon and perspectives.

Just bought this for a young friend of mine stepping into his first real leadership role, I look forward to seeing his emphasis shift from himself to the success of others.

I trust that my hope is that which was also McGinnis' goal when he wrote this book.

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This is one of the BEST books I have read

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018

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This is one of the BEST books I have read. It has so many nuggets that there are too many to mention. You can tell the author is religious, but he doesn't dwell on the religious so much for someone who isn't so much religious. I have always had a positive attitude toward people in general and to them become the best they can be is a goal of mine that I am always striving to attain. THANK YOU!!!

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Just Jacq

As Described

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

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As described. Good shipping experience

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