Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590515021 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carnegie quickly figured out that something was amiss in American education and in the ways businesspeople related to each other. Self-help Messiah tells the story of Carnegie’s personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention.. Carnegie conceived his book to help people learn to relate to one another and enrich their lives through effective communication. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of “the most important Americans of the twentieth century.” This is the first full-scale biography of this influential figure. His success was extraordinary, so hungry was 1920s America for a little psychological insight that was easy to apply to everyday affairs. To make ends meet he tried his hand at various sales jobs, and his failure to convince his customers to buy what he had to offer eventually became the fuel behind his future glory. Dale Carnegie was born in rural Missouri, his father a poor farmer, his mother a successful preacher. An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans “how to win friends and influence people” Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. What he discovered was as simple as it was profound: Understanding people’s needs and desires is paramount in any successful enterprise
"Dale Carnegie -- a founding father of the post-Depression success movement" according to Jim Rohrbach. This in-depth biography of Dale Carnegie gives you more than you ever thought there was to know about the man who taught millions how to win friends and influence people. Dale Carnagey (who later changed the spelling) was born into an impoverished rural family in northwestern Missouri. The book details how his life experiences, from endless farm chores to traveling salesman to actor, inspired his later life’s work of sharing principles of interpersonal effectiveness. Carnegie realized that, much like Ben Franklin, he needed to apply these principle. "Compelling business history" according to Matt Norman. Watts captures a full and authentic picture of Dale Carnegie though takes too much liberty with religious metaphors and connections. The book not only details the life of this important modern figure but provides a historical context for the evolution of the keys to success over the past two centuries in business.. Robert Kirk said 5 stars for making a human of Carnegie. I have read hundreds of self help books and I knew that Carnegie was a "founding father" of this movement but I never knew the man until now. One word, WOW ! His life, although not the most interesting, shows how we as average people can really rise above and make a difference. His life also shows how no one is close to perfect and some of the details of his private affairs are just plain incredible and strange. The impact of his work people the last 50 years is truly amazing though and to have that influence and still be generally an average person, it'
Along the way, the author argues, Carnegie embodied and promoted a revolutionary shift from a Victorian code of stern morality, hard work, and self-denial to a modern ethos that locates success in a pleasing personality, a canny stroking of other people's egos, and the pursuit of self-actualization—with implications both liberating and sinister. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. (Nov.) . (A new biography of mass murderer Charles Manson notes his use of manipulative ploys gleaned from a Dale Carnegie course.) Watts situates Carnegie's story in a rich account of the dawning age o