Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment. If You Must Find Fault, This Is the Way to Begin.

Pages 237 – 242.

Section 4 really pivots towards use cases of all the earlier rules that have been covered, and we begin with Carnegie saying that leadership begins with praise and *sincere* appreciation.

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“Beginning with Praise is like the dentist who begins with Novocaine.” Page 242

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“There are many occasions on which it would be precisely the right thing to say, but is it quite suitable to this particular occasion?”

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Lincoln to Hooker, with whom he was upset and expected much. “There are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.” Talk about tact! And diplomacy!

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“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

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Brass is running late.

“It is one of the cleanest and neatest bronze factories I ever saw,” said Gaw.

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“Beginning with Praise is like the dentist who begins with Novocaine.”

PRINCIPLE 1 Begin with praise and honest appreciation.