by Jeff Price | Oct 20, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Why is it that leaders, managers and even parents have a tendency to focus on what’s wrong rather than what’s right? Neuroscience has shown that we care more about the threat of bad things than we do about the prospect of good things (Carnegie and Cole...
by Jeff Price | Oct 20, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
I sometimes get asked big question that sounds like this: “What if I am doing all of these things to try to connect and build rapport but the other person is trying to do the same things, will we kind of cancel each other out?” No. In fact the exact...
by Jeff Price | Oct 19, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Are you hearing the world, “really?” a lot when you talk to someone? That may be a sign that they aren’t listening and are just being polite. You think they are engaged and hanging on your every word, meanwhile they are silently hoping for an easy...
by Jeff Price | Oct 18, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Ever notice that when you go outside for a couple of minutes and come back in your dog loses its mind as if you just been gone for an eternity? (Carnegie & Cole 39) This is also something little kids do for their parents when they are still to young to argue and...
by Jeff Price | Oct 17, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
One thing we all want to know is whether we have made a difference. Some people attempt to achieve this in negative ways, while most of us go about our lives just hoping that something we’ve done matters. Although I am firmly entrenched in middle-age I have...
by Jeff Price | Oct 15, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Dale Carnegie is one of the uncontested leaders of the human performance movement. Growing up, his name was frequently invoked in my house as my mom once took one of his courses. Years later, I came to discover that many of Carnegie’s principles were...
