On: Ask HN: What are your best “soft skill” resources?

[colinbartlett]

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie should be required reading for anyone who interacts with human beings.

[jxm262 → colinbartlett]

This book has been mentioned to me at least a dozen times. For some reason, your comment is the one that just pushed me over the edge to buy it :)

I'm posting this just because it's been recommended so often to me there must be something to it.

[t-3-k → jxm262]

For me that tipping point was when I came across this:

>The one book we encourage startup founders to read is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. It's critically important for anyone in business.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html

[javcasas → jxm262]

Yeah, the book is impressive. It will teach you how to become likeable by most people, and that is something you definitely need if you want to become a manager or any kind of leader, or just if you have to deal with people on your job, even if it's just your boss and coworkers.

[vldx → jxm262]

It's a valuable book, despite it's name. My tipping point was a Warren Buffett interview, where he mentioned how it influenced his early life.

[shash7 → jxm262]

Its a really nice book. In fact, I am gonna read it again after seeing your comment!