Winning With People - Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time Description:

Winning With People : Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time review:
4 stars (Another Winner!) - First of all I want to confess that I am John Maxwell junkie. I not only thoroughly enjoy his books but they help me in becoming a better person.



This book is written where every chapter is golden and yet able to stand alone. You can simply open the book to any chapter and it will enrich you. Even though the chapters are segmented into 5 logical sections.



I especially liked the chapter entitled, "The Pain Principle: Hurting people hurt people and are easily hurt by them". This chapter increased my empathy and sensitivity for hurting people. It just makes sense that those that lash out are really hurting people.



I gave this book 4 stars simply because his best work by far was, "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership".



As helpful as this book was I simply tried to read a chapter each evening before going to sleep. Like a nutritious light snack that won't keep you up all night.
4 stars (Impressed with reservations) - This is the second book I've read from John Maxwell. Overall, I found the book to be well written, personal, and filled with principles, explanations, and anecdotes.



Each principle is explained in a manner that should strike a cord in many people. He supports the concept embodied by the principle with anecdotes, both personal and historical.



If you are looking for a book to help with interpersonal relationships, this is a good book to to start with. John covers a lot of ground in this book.



That would be my major criticism of the book. There are many, many strategies and approaches, and keeping track can get confusing. They are well organized. This will have to be a book that you refer back to as issues in your life come up and you are looking for help.



I think Covey's work is more managable and priciple system oriented, but that shouldn't detract from John's work. There is an unlying system, but John's approach appears to be more of set of tools to help you, with each dealing with a specific type of problem.
5 stars (My first read of Maxwell's books and not my last!!!) - I had recently found "The 21 Most Important Minutes in a Leader's Day" from Sam's Club and I never heard of him. I immediately felt he had redeeming qualities to Dale Carnegie, not directly, but that feeling, and after reading one of his most recent books "Winning With People", I was right.



I am halfway through the book, but it's well worth telling people now how much this book is worth for fans of Dale Carnegie's work. John C. Maxwell writes about principles of winning people via examples and stories and quotes which remind me so much of Carnegie. As another critic wrote "He's written the How To Win Friends and Influence People for the 21st century, except even better. Even Carnegie is mentioned as one of the mentors Maxwell followed in his life.



The book is basically full of information on winning over people and for people who use to be "awful" a few years ago and wanting to change, found Dale Carnegie, I have to confess that John C. Maxwell is ten times better than him, although I respect them both equally. THIS BOOK IS DEFINATELY A MUST READ FOR WINNING OVER PEOPLE!