Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
So is Dale Carnegie's approach of winning friends and influencing people no longer relevant?
Not necessarily, in the business world you deal with all kinds of people and therefor, all kinds of personalities. Different personalities meld together well while others do not and this leads to how easy it is in general to make friends, add in the greedy desires of the business world and it is even harder to find someone you can completely trust and call a friend. However it is not impossible to win as many friends as you want but the question is how much time, effort and desire will you put in to it while being aware of the many risks you are taking doing so. Influencing people is also something that is very random, people have different views and thus will be influenced differently by your actions, decisions and what you say. It is impossible to know for sure how many people you can influence and whether or not its positive or negative. As with before, it is not impossible to push your influential range and positive effect but how much effort and time are you willing to do so.

I will say that having the ability to easily win friends and have huge positive influence will make anyone have a massive advantage in the social aspect of the business world.