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Carnegie 29.4.8: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 8 Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

Posted on July 27, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 29.4.8: How to Win Friends and Influence People -PRINCIPLE 8 Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct. – Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct Pages 272 – 276 Earlier on Page 110 we learned that Dale … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 28.4.7: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 7 Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.- Give a Dog a Good Name

Posted on July 26, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 28.4.7: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 7 Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.- Give a Dog a Good Name Pages 267 – 271 Carnegie’s chapter title refers to an ‘old saying’ … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 27.4.6: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.” – How to Spur People On to Success

Posted on July 26, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 27.4.6: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.” – How to Spur People On to Success Pages 261 … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 26.4.5: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face

Posted on July 25, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 26.4.5: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.- Let the Other Person Save Face. Pages 257 – 259 Carnegie borrows directly from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” in Chapter … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 25.4.4: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 4 Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.- No One Likes to Take Orders

Posted on July 24, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 25.4.4: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 4 Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. “No One Likes to Take Orders” Pages 254 – 256 When a decision is required and urgency rules the day – … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 24.4.3: How to Win Friends and Influence People – Talk About Your Own Mistakes First – PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person

Posted on July 23, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 24.4.3: How to Win Friends and Influence People Talk About Your Own Mistakes First – PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Pages 249 – 253. Carnegie builds again off of earlier points – he … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 23.4.2: How to Win Friends and Influence People – How to Criticize—and Not Be Hated for It – PRINCIPLE 2 Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.

Posted on July 22, 2019 by flybrand1976

Pages 244 – 248 Carnegie has already covered mistakes very thoroughly earlier – “If you’re wrong, admit it.” Now he’s giving guidance on how to correct someone else’s mistakes – and he’s saying to be indirect. Since 2015 the phrase … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 22.4.1: How to Win Friends and Influence People – PRINCIPLE 1 Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Posted on July 21, 2019 by flybrand1976

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 … Continue reading →

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How to Replace a Baseboard Heating Cover in an Hour or Less

Posted on July 20, 2019 by flybrand1976

The number one hit for ‘replacing baseboard heating covers’ is a This Old House Episode that looks pretty daunting.  My son and I just knocked this out in less than an hour.  Here’s what we did: Measure We had 3 … Continue reading →

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Carnegie 21.3.12: How to Win Friends and Influence People -PRINCIPLE 12 Throw down a challenge.

Posted on July 20, 2019 by flybrand1976

Carnegie 21.3.12: How to Win Friends and Influence People -PRINCIPLE 12 Throw down a challenge. Pages 228 – 231 Appeal to people’s nobler vision (as called out in Principle 10), and then enlist them in the challenge of achieving it.  … Continue reading →

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