Business executives eliminated 75% of all the time they formerly spent trying to solve business problems. You will use these methods often also in the privacy of your own home to help you solve personal problems, and you will also use these techniques and methods to solve group problems. The methods outlined in this booklet produce just as satisfactory results in family conferences as in business conferences.
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's behavior towards them.
I shudder to think how many hours of precious life are wasted in unproductive meetings. Instead we have adopted the fantasy that everyone needs to weigh into a problem even if they don’t want to, make sure they’ve had their say. And you wonder how these meetings spiral out of control, only to be continued the next day and the next…