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How to be People Smart: The skill that brings great rewards and personal satisfaction
This is a feminder course- a Program- step by step- in few words- right to the point- the exact "how to" be People- Smart- "how to" increase your skill with people. Thousands who have used this program will tell you that if you have an open mind and a desire to get more out of life, this program will work wonders in many ways.
94 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2011
About the author
Les Giblin
54 books134 followersOne of the pioneers of the personal development industry, Les Giblin was born in 1912 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After serving in the military, Giblin began a sales job with the Sheaffer Pen Company in 1946. His successful career in door-to-door sales allowed him to become an ardent observer of human nature and eventually earned him two titles as national Salesman of the Year.
Talking lessons from his sales career, Giblin penned his classic Skill With People in 1968 and began conducting thousands of seminars for companies and associations including Mobil, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, etc.
Transcending generations, Les Giblin’s timeless message of making skill with people the essential ability in your life takes on new meaning in today’s world of impersonal communication.
Make the most of your personal connections as taught by the master of people and sales skills.
Talking lessons from his sales career, Giblin penned his classic Skill With People in 1968 and began conducting thousands of seminars for companies and associations including Mobil, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, etc.
Transcending generations, Les Giblin’s timeless message of making skill with people the essential ability in your life takes on new meaning in today’s world of impersonal communication.
Make the most of your personal connections as taught by the master of people and sales skills.
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July 25, 2021
You will not want to let the economy of words of this book mislead or distract you from reading it. This is a helpfully worthwhile book to read - indeed, to re-read and re-read again.
The sole reason that I do not rate this with a full 5-star rating is only because it is indeed so brief. Yes, while it is powerfully-packed, the book is not the type to have more voluminous content with a full bibliographed type of academic/quasi-academic text.
But don't let that fool you. This is a great book!
While it might seem initially odd to have such few words on pages along with drawn pictures, the book explains its rationale from the start. Not only does that approach make sense, it works. It does help you learn what is being taught - proving its point by example.
The book is structured for you to initially read it over 10 weeks. Namely, you learn a specific "People-Smart" lesson over a handful of pages, after which you are given a checklist of ways to apply and practice the skills learned from that lesson over the subsequent week. There are ten such lessons & "one-week assignments." I recommend following that guidance and doing that for your first read-through.
I did exactly that, myself, during the first time I read this book. Since then, I have re-read it again every few years to keep myself mindful of these helpful lessons. As a straight read-though, this book can be read in less an hour and half (even when reading slowly).
If you want to be "People-Smart,"
you will want
to read this book, How to Be People Smart,
and to do these things too.
The sole reason that I do not rate this with a full 5-star rating is only because it is indeed so brief. Yes, while it is powerfully-packed, the book is not the type to have more voluminous content with a full bibliographed type of academic/quasi-academic text.
But don't let that fool you. This is a great book!
While it might seem initially odd to have such few words on pages along with drawn pictures, the book explains its rationale from the start. Not only does that approach make sense, it works. It does help you learn what is being taught - proving its point by example.
The book is structured for you to initially read it over 10 weeks. Namely, you learn a specific "People-Smart" lesson over a handful of pages, after which you are given a checklist of ways to apply and practice the skills learned from that lesson over the subsequent week. There are ten such lessons & "one-week assignments." I recommend following that guidance and doing that for your first read-through.
I did exactly that, myself, during the first time I read this book. Since then, I have re-read it again every few years to keep myself mindful of these helpful lessons. As a straight read-though, this book can be read in less an hour and half (even when reading slowly).
If you want to be "People-Smart,"
you will want
to read this book, How to Be People Smart,
and to do these things too.
January 12, 2015
Easy read, nothing too profound in this book but informative nevertheless. Good for people beginning to explore this topic.
October 30, 2011
I found this book very similar to Mr. Giblin's book Skill With People
So I was already knowing a lot many things which was there in the book. But yes, there are still many things which you can learn from the book.
So I was already knowing a lot many things which was there in the book. But yes, there are still many things which you can learn from the book.
August 19, 2014
This book is more like a workshop than a sit down read, and it actually works! I have to be honest though, I only did the mandatory homework a couple of times! I would recommend this book to anyone in any profession as it relates to working with people. It is very simplistic, but we often fail at the simple things in life. Excellent read!
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