While you may not have full-blown Cell Phone Addiction, if you’re like most smartphone users you check your phone at least 58 times per day (according to data from RescueTime), and receive 46 push notifications (according to Business of Apps – although that number seems low to me). While it’s great to be able to…
Founded only one year after Dale Carnegie wrote his best selling book How To Win Friends and Influence People, John Deere is an iconic brand with a firm hold on the agriculture, lawn care, and heavy machinery industries. But even long-standing companies with a loyal following feel the need to improve from time to time. …
Dale Carnegie believed in the power of admitting one’s mistakes – believed so much, in fact, that this makes up his twelfth human relations principle: If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Thirty-two years after the release of Carnegie’s seminal work, How To Win Friends and Influence People, this principle was put to…
It is well documented that public speaking is a common fear, so there’s really no need to rehash the fact that an estimated 75% of people suffer from it. Instead, let’s try to revise our perspective of this phobia.In a recent meeting, one of my mentors asked me a question that has completely changed the…