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Loading... Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Timeby Keith Ferrazzi
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A good book on one successful man's experiences with networking / relationship building. A lot of it was common sense but it was interesting to see how the author applied it in his own life. Some fresh ideas were included too. (  ) kristinmm | Aug 18, 2008 |  I picked up this book on the recommendation of a very successful businessman. The book is full of great ideas, however the tone of the book seemed to be one of "everyone must be able to do what I can". I plugged through this book, mostly because I assumed that I couldn't have been led that astray by the recommendation. Sadly by the time I got to the last chapters I was finished with hearing what Ferrazzi had to say. I'm not going to argue with what he has to say, as I agree with a great deal of it. Of course, I've read basically the same thing in "Think & Grow Rich" and "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" so frankly what Ferrazzi is saying is pretty old hat. If you're looking for some advice, yeah you could work your way through this, but frankly I'd just go back to the original and read "Think & Grow Rich". (  ) diamondb | Jun 25, 2008 | I agree with the previous reviews. Ferrazzi annoyed the sh*t out of me-- did he write this book to really help others out, or was it just an excuse to toot his own horn? As a middle-class minority woman in the education field, I really couldn't stomach anything he wrote at first. Let's get serious here. Minus the "I pulled my own boot-straps" stories, what's the likelihood that the average American can get even relatively close to sitting, much less conversing with any of these big-shots Ferrazzi claims he knows on a personal level? At first, I thought that this book has no relevance to anyone unless they're majoring in business and marketing. After awhile though, I came back to reading the book and I have to admit that there were a few pieces of advice worth paying attention to. For one thing, I learned the hard way not to piss off an "administrative professional". Take the whole thing with a grain of salt-- don't get too upset at the snobbery, and write down the advice when it comes to social and communication skills. I may not have the same lists of celebs and CEOs on my cell-phone, but at least I can improve my people skills which is a must for every type of job anyway. ( )2  cmlorena | Jun 17, 2008 | The author is full of himself. (that's not to say there aren't good ideas here, but it wasn't my personal style) superpatron | Oct 29, 2006 | Fantastic tips and stories. One flaw is that it doesn't address introverts, who would be completely exhausted by Ferrazzi's uber-extrovert style. (  ) astompa | Jul 25, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385512058, Hardcover)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. 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 selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum. 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. Among them: Don’t keep score: It’s never simply about getting what you want. It’s about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too. “Ping” constantly: The Ins and Outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time—not just when you need something. Never eat alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you’re working at a corporation or attending a society event— “invisibility” is a fate worse than failure. In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Katherine Graham to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama. Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a “conference commando,” and more, Never Eat Alone is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People as an inspirational classic. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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