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It's Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) By Turning Colleagues And Contacts Into Lasting, Genuine Relationships (2010)

by Tommy Spaulding(Favorite Author)
3.56 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0307589137 (ISBN13: 9780307589132)
languge
English
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publisher
Crown Business
review 1: While we've all experienced business 'relationships' where the only thing that you have left of it when you are no longer useful is the boot print in your back, it is a fact of business life that part of the process is cultivating relationships that can open the right doors.If one is running their business strategically, it makes perfect sense that cultivating strategic relationships would be part the overall approach.This is a good guide to finding and nurturing strategic relationships in a mutually beneficial and ethical way. Favourite quote from the book: 'Focusing on the relationship fist means taking the risk that you might never get some of the things you want.'
review 2: Personally, the word "networking" does not conjure up positive associations for me.
... moreIt has always seemed like a selfish venture: a system of collecting, using, and then discarding people. Because of this, I was very pleasantly surprised with this book. The author encourages keeping an open mind as you meet people in even the most mundane circumstances and building genuine relationships with people, not for what you can get out of them or how you can use them, but for the sake of enriching both lives. Not everyone will like the format- the author does rely heavily on personal anecdotes to illustrate his points. All in all, this provided good food for thought, and in the age of social media, it is refshing to see a focus on building relationships of quality rather than just quantity. less
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shorttey2812
Nice book contains alot of stories but i don't like stories !
thor360
Amazing relationship book!!!
danie
I really liked it.
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