Senior business leaders are often the ones younger professionals look to for how to conduct themselves. And no matter how long you have been in business, it’s likely that you’ve seen someone handle himself in a less than professional manner. Whether it was a lack of etiquette during a business lunch or dominating a conversation,…
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Make Your Daily Problems Seem Easy by Comparison
Ted Ericksen once told Dale Carnegie how he used to be a terrible “worry wart.” But in the summer of 1942, when he was a young man just starting out on his life’s path, he had an experience that banished worry from his life for all time, and made every other trouble seem small by…
7 Tips for Being a More Efficient Person
Being an efficient person is not always the easiest thing for everyone. It typically requires a great deal of discipline, dedication and practice. However, it is doable for everyone that makes it a point to try and make the best use of their time, energy and abilities. Here are seven tips for being a more…
The Bigger the Dog, The Harder the Kick
The more important a dog is, the more satisfaction people get in kicking him. This is the analogy Dale Carnegie used is explaining why important and influential people are often criticized unfairly. Carnegie once told the story of the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VIII. He was attending Dartmouth College in Devonshire at…