If you must find fault, begin with praise and honest appreciation
-Principle 1, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.235 Continue reading If you must find fault, begin with praise and honest appreciation
-Principle 1, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.235 Continue reading If you must find fault, begin with praise and honest appreciation
-Principle 2, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.239 Continue reading Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly
-Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.244 Continue reading Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person
This is from a man who earned over a million dollar a year when someone earning fifty dollars a week was considered well off. “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people,” sais Schwab, “the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone.[…] So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault.” -Charles Schwab *Charles Schwab was one of the first people in … Continue reading I don’t criticize, I believe in giving a person incentive to work instead.
It wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense importance, and arouse resentment. -Principle 1, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.34 Continue reading Criticism is dangerous because…