If there is one lesson Dale Carnegie wanted his readers and participants to learn over the past 100 years it would be that “Attitude not skills is what leads to life breakthroughs”.
I believe that this lesson is what makes Dale Carnegie Training stand out from others and what made us breakthrough our second century.
If your leadership is an iceberg, the 10% above water is your skill, the 90% below water is your attitude that stems out of your character. It’s what’s below the surface that sinks the ship!
Just as the Titanic captain didn’t listen to six wireless “iceberg warnings” that night of April 14th 1912, saying: Shut up, I am busy, with major character flaws hidden and unseen, leaders react to warnings by saying: Shut up, I am busy enhancing my skills!
So much of our influence comes from qualities we can’t see on the outside:
- Self discipline (the ability to do what’s right even if you don’t feel like it)
- Core values (principles you live by that enable you to take a moral stand)
- Sense of identity (a realistic self- image based on your gifts and personality)
- Emotional security (the capacity to be emotionally stable and consistent)
These qualities are not only present in Dale Carnegie Programs and methodology, they are also the main ingredients for Dale Carnegie staff, Dale Carnegie didn’t leave a huge heritage of money, but he left a long lasting heritage of culture of Attitude.
I hereby welcome our readers to our second 100 years, remembering what always made us breakthrough: “your skills may get you to the top, but it’s your character that will keep you there”.
by Dale Carnegie Training