Resources for interpersonal skills.

Question

I'm a developer who needs to improve my interpersonal skills. What resources can you recommend for this? Please no resources about software management; I have no interest in becoming a manager.

Answer 1

Even currently listed on the front page of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (for a long time also part of Joel's recommended reading list):

Finally, and I know it sounds cheesy, but Dale Carnegie’s 1937 book How to Win Friends & Influence People is actually a fantastic introduction to interpersonal skills. It’s the first book I make all the management trainees at Fog Creek read, before anything else, and they always snicker when I tell them to read it, and love it when they’re done.

How to Win Friends and Influence People