How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

by Les Giblin

Book Overview

Offers practical methods & tested techniques for adding power & confidence to interpersonal relationships

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134106717
• ISBN13: 9780134106717
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent read!

Practical and proven tactics on persuading people. This book is worth its weight in gold. The wisdom it contains in regards to human interaction is priceless!

Should be in your top book for advancement.

Great book in learning how communicate, with people I felt like it's re enforcing what I am currently reading with Dale Carniege How to win friends and influence people

Great book to create people power

I first heard about this great book back in the mid 1970's when I was working for a direct sales company. I had to admit that people skills were not my forte. The good news was that they could be devloped and I did just that by reading and using Les Giblins great techniques. The technique how to get 100% cooperation alone is worth the price of this book. In fact, I feel that it would be impossible to read any part of this great book without benefitting. This is a great book. Highly recommended.

The best how-to book

If you have trouble handling people, this is the book for you. Sure, it was written in the 1950s, but it does NOT need to be updated. Everything the author says is true; and he explains it all in an easy, understandable, and thoughtful way. One of my favorite parts is when Les Giblin tells a story about one of his friends who walked up to total strangers and chatted with them as if they were old friends. ("No one ever called him fresh or rude.") Giblin asked his friend what his secret was. His friend's secret is revealed; Buy this book, b/c it's worth it!

Goes to the heart of the matter

I love this book. It goes to the heart of the matter even better that Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, although that is an excellent book too. I have read and re-read this book and practice it constantly. But dealing with people is one of those things that you can continually improve and never come to the end of your potential. Giblin's book is a classic manual for that journey.Another excellent book is Self-Help Stuff That Works by Adam Khan (Youme Works; ISBN: 0962465674). That book has great references and he uses the same chapter ending principle style as Carnegie! You won't find it at the bookstore, but you will find it here.