A Prophet and a Dead Loss ; Bookof Theweek [Eire Region]
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Warren Buffett's Management Secrets by Mary Buffett and David Clark Simon & Schuster Pounds 19.30 .....
When Warren Buffett was a lad of eight or nine, he picked up a book in his grandfather's library. Over the next decade or so, he read it over and over again. The book was a self-help manual for aspirant businessmen, perhaps the most famous of all time: How To Win Friends And Influence People, by the former salesman Dale Carnegie.See the full content of this document
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A Prophet and a Dead Loss ; Bookof Theweek [Eire Region]
The book consisted of a set of 30 rules, including: 'If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically', 'Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticised' and 'Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Let the other person save face'.
To my way of thinking, most of them are so crashingly obvious as to be worthless. They seem roughly on a ...See the full content of this document
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