Abstract: - How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job is indeed a great book of all times written by a great legend and world
class author on Human Relations and values. His purpose of writing this great book was to help millions of readers to
rediscover their hidden talents / energy and enable them to achieve happiness, a great sense of accomplishment and pride in doing the job in hand. This book so simple to read , understand and apply to our daily life that once to start reading it, you may not put it down as it is so absorbing and convincing. The most striking feature of this book is that it provides you a simple road-map to develop ownership for the job, become committed , dedicated and be highly productive, contributing to the organization. After reading this book you think positive and take
criticism as a challenge to do better every time. You do not sulk or crack under criticism.
The world famous author Dale Carnegie has written many books related to personnel management, leadership, friendship, effective speaking and developing people’s network. This book is well organized and structured into following parts:
1) How to stop worrying and start living. This part highlights seven ways to achieve peace and happiness through self analysis and self improvement. It helps to build self confidence , rediscover own talents, and enhance performance.
2) Fundamental techniques of handling people: - This part lays main emphasis on winning people by influencing and inspiring them for establishing long lasting relationship. Its focus is developing people and teams instead to stressing or condemning / breaking them
3) Ways to win people to your way so thinking: - This part deals with leadership traits like logical reasoning and analysis of own strengths and weakness and threats from both friend and enemies. It shows you the way to co-exist on the basis of live and let live but harm none. It provides you the shock- absorbing mechanism to tolerate criticism and co-exist with wrong boss or wrong peers and even non co-operating subordinate.
4) Ways to change people: - This part explains how to constructively criticize and correct others. The aim should be not to hurt them but suggest then to accept your ideas and recognize your contribution.. It is not to pin down your team members for their mistakes but to reward them for their good actions It gives more emphasis giving concessions on mistakes made by subordinates, not shouting and issuing orders to them . Instead, it suggests to provide opportunity to other persons for face saving and continue to working with renewed enthusiasm
This book is highly recommended for readers of all ages, gender, country or religion/faith or nature of job / profession. This books is a great motivator for all people to rediscover their confidence, energy, performance .and learn to do well ,feel good and enjoy the life in office , on duty and home.
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