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Whistle Stopper - Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Doubleday Business
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9780385512053
ISBN: 0385512058
Label: Doubleday Business
Manufacturer: Doubleday Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2005-02-22
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Release Date: 2005-02-22
Studio: Doubleday Business
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Skip this one
Comment: I heard this guy at a conference, and of course our conference hosts presented us with the book as a gift in our rooms the night before. I walked out on the "speech," and thought maybe the book would be better. Alas, it wasn't. This is the most self-aggrandizing book of this genre I have ever read. One wonders how many times that "I" appears in the book. "I did this, I did that, I'm great...." You name it. His methods smack of insincerity and merely using people for his own advantage. It disgusts me. Much better material out there; don't waste your money on this one. Unless you like to use people.
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Summary: I LOVE that book!
Comment: This is an amazing book that has done many things for me with the two most important: given me lots of ideas about marketing my business and validating personal ideas and business practices that I had.
I also very much enjoyed reading this book: it's full of examples of people that I have hear of and can identify with, it's well written with few "repeats" and best of all, it almost reads like a novel: you want to keep on reading!
I originally got this book from the library: I am buying it for my own collection as I'll want to refer to it over and over again.
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Summary: Average
Comment: Nutshell review - An average book about building business relationships. Nothing particularly new or unique that cannot be found in any number of other common sense business books. If you haven't read any others than this is an ok place to start.
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Summary: Tips for Expanding Your Network
Comment: Ferrazzi has some good ideas in this book regarding networking, meeting people and using relationships as a way to achieve success and contentment in this life. While a few examples from the lives of great networkers appear throughout the book, he mainly focuses on himself - which is both good and bad. The good is that he has tried many methods of trying to meet people and staying in touch with them once you do. The result is insightful advice and suggestions. The bad is that you get a sense that this guy likes to talk about himself and his accomplishments, which gets annoying over the course of the book. Not all of his ideas are practical for most people either, like hosting dinner parties once a month and having them catered. But all in all, this is a worthwhile book and goes further in creativity than most networking books. Like the author, I too believe that much of life comes down to who you know and the give and take in relationships and was glad to gleam some wisdom from someone who has literally tried it all within the world of real networking.
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Summary: Liberal Trojan Horse
Comment: Such an odd book. Useless as a guide for networking and growing a business, and is nothing more than liberal propoganda disguised as a how-to book.
First of all, the author has helped Hillary Clinton campaign. Hillary Clinton abhors private business, wants to tax us to death, and if she had her way no private businesses would even exist at all! Does the author agree with this mindset, and if so, are we to take any of his "advice" seriously?
Second, the author continues to talk about how great it is to be "progressive", and how you must seek out "progressive" people to do business with. Huh? Progressives are nothing more than fringe lunatics. If you want to see a "progressive" in action, go to Daily Kos and read some of the disgusting blog postings there. Communist, anti-American tripe.
Lastly, the author is friends with Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post...a cheap anti-American site that does nothing but support terrorists, whine about capitalism, and trash white males in racist fashion.
You are known by the company you keep, and the author is cleary not someone to take advice from. And aside from all the political faults he has, tbe book pretty much is useless anyways. There is no solid strategy to networking here....just a hodgepodge autobiography of some random left wing "radical" who has somehow managed to make some money in the same capitalist system that all of his buddies hate so much.
I would suggest "Endless Referrals" By Bob Burg instead.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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