PART FOUR

Sharpening Up Your Communication Skills

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men; and among these fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick

Communication is the lifeblood of all personal relations, both in business and the private sphere. Like time management, here is a school from which you will never graduate; there is always room for improving your communication skills.

People who enjoy a measure of personal success are usually good communicators. Nature equips us with our innate aptitude to learn a language, that unique gift that human beings enjoy and that enables us to be persons, not mere animals. ...

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