I am listening to The Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Course: How To Challenge Yourself and Others To Greatness by Dale Carnegie Audio CD- Sep 1, 2001) Abridged. This can be purchased on amazon for a little under $25 at the current time of this writing. They want to teach you to be a leader in flexible, adaptable, trustworthy, tough and decisive. Other ideas like gain respect of others. Get family, friends and co-workers to do stuff because they want to. Respect effectively under pressure and in a crisis. Think clearly with little anxiety. Accomplish twice as much by motivating others. Make powerful decisions that you can follow through on with Carnegies action plan. This is approximately 6 hours running time, and 6 CD’s.
This is from amazon.com
“About the Author
Perhaps more than any other person who ever lived, Dale Carnegie changed the human relations movement. His world-famous course has influenced millions of people. Looking back on his life, Carnegie saw that worry and fear were the forces that held him back. Conquering worry and fear gave him a new hold on life. He developed the Dale Carnegie Course as a forum for overcoming worry and fear and developing human relations and leadership skills.”
Publisher: Nightingale-Conant
There is a lot of talk about working with people and being able to motivate them. They make it very clear that a threatening tough, dictator type of leader is no longer effective in this new world we are in. They talk about being humble, and not showing anger. There is a lot of emphasis on great communication. Success is a journey rather than destination. There are stories of how to apply these principles and ideas in real life. It speaks of the experience of Dale Carnegie and what he has learned that he can now teach you.
