How to win friends and influence people

Just read the Wiki on How to Win Friends and Influence People – this is networking and building great business relationships in a nutshell…..

Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking

• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say “You’re Wrong.”
• If you’re wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
• Begin in a friendly way.
• Start with questions to which the other person will answer yes.
• Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
• Let the other person feel the idea is his or hers.
• Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.
• Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.
• Appeal to the nobler motives.
• Dramatize your ideas.
• Throw down a challenge