Dale Carnegie liked to tell stories of celebrities who didn’t discover their fame until they accepted themselves for who they were. There was Charlie Chaplin, who didn’t become famous until he discovered his unique gift for humor and began to talk as he twirled his rope. Gene Autry tried to drop his Texas accent and…
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3 Ways Senior Leaders Can Foster Business Professionalism
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,…
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…
How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
J.P. Morgan once observed that a person usually has two good reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one. The person himself will think of the real reason. You don’t need to emphasize that. But all of us, being idealists at heart, like to think of motives that sound good….