Reviews for Label Writing And Planning

The average rating for Label Writing And Planning based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-07 00:00:00 Dennis Smith "Getting More" is not a useless book, especially if combined with a day-long training, but how incredibly verbose it is! A proper summary would require 20 pages, the essence fits onto a tiny card which you will get if you attend the training. While reading the book I often had the feeling that it started as a 20-pages summary but more and more stuff was later injected to make a 400-pages volume out of it, certain passages are not very coherent. It is reassuring to know that this book helped so many people but some stories look more like anecdotes, like this one: A Chinese company didn't want to pay a 700M debt to an American company for two years, until in a meeting the American guys said "You are loosing your face, Chinese businessmen! We are also loosing our faces!" and voila, they paid the debt right away. Or how about this cool trick: at the counter in a mall ask the shop-assistant if she has had a bad day with nasty customers; tell her, with a sigh, you understand perfectly well how troubled she is; then ask if she has a discount for a nice person like you. I wonder how many shop-assistants can be fooled with this and how many customers wouldn't feel ridiculous asking for a discount for being "nice".

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-22 00:00:00 Vance Gosselin The ethics of this book are somewhat disturbing. The author himself wonders throughout if it's wrong to do what he recommends. At one point he asks "What if everybody did this?" and his non-responsive answer is "Everybody doesn't". The honest answer is that if "everybody did this" there would be mass chaos. For example, he describes a jackass who has already gotten 15 speeding-tickets and gets pulled over for doing over 50 in a 20MPH zone but talks his way out of another ticket by using the skills he learned from the author. Well, what would be the result if every dangerous driver got away with their reckless behavior? More death and injury to innocent people. Not good. Of course, if you are a sociopath and your only "goal in the real world" is "getting more" for yourself, then that is not a concern. Anyway, this is just not a great book, with certain phrases/sentences repeated dozens, if not hundreds, of times. The parts that are useful and not evil can be found elsewhere with better presentation.