I’ve recently started reading the book by Dale Carnegie and so far, roughly a third into it, I’ve found it pretty good although not revolutionary. What are you folk’s opinions on it?
Addendum: also any advice for making genuine connections and interact with people for someone whose social skills are not the sharpest?
I found it valuable. Read it in a reading circle exercise as part of some leadership class, where everybody took a pick of a book and did a presentation.
Now, everyone else’s books seemed to be about bunching up ‘different’ individuals in categories and drawing up strategies to get along (or ably lead) these. I said I’d present last and opened with ‘We’ve heard a multitude of ways to classify different people. My book came in at a totally opposite angle, finding the things that are true for all of us and teaching how to work with that.’ IMO a much better angle.