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Booklist: Never Eat Alone

Never Eat Alone
And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
How to Build a Lifelong Community of Colleagues, Contacts, Friends, and Mentors
by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz

“A step-by-step way to build relationships with anyone. The tone is engaging and the advice practical…” - New York Times

“Your network is your net worth. This book shows you how to add to your personal bottom line with better networking and bigger relationships … a solid but easy read! Buy this book for yourself, and tomorrow-go out and buy one for your kid brother!”

- Tim Sanders, author of Love is the Killer App: How To Win Business And Influence Friends and Leadership Coach at Yahoo!

From the book jacket:

Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success?

The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.

From the website:
In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.

The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and one of Davos’ Global Leader for Tomorrow.

Ferrazzi’s form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with “networking.” He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles.

http://www.ferrazzigreenlight.com/nevereatalone/theBook.html

One Response to “Booklist: Never Eat Alone”

Antibush Says:
February 15th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Watch subject. Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? What is he doing to us, and what is he doing to the world?
Are we safer today than we were before?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.