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Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated

And the Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

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Written by: Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz
Narrated by: Richard Harries
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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 in early 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 contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business.

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Keith Ferrazzi's book is not so much about relationships as it is about Keith Ferrazzi. Certainly you can learn a lot from him; especially his approach to networking. But words you never hear in this book include: family, sacrifice, and love. It's a book about his ego and self-worship of his own success, gratuitous name-dropping and self-aggrandizement. I have never so disliked an author after reading his book, while yet admiring his personal success. Listen to this book if you want to see how sacrificing everything for success can boost your career to be a CEO like him. But be warned the number of imperatives and instructions to "do like I do" is not going to make you feel better about building relationships, especially if you have family, want to love people closely, or need to sacrifice your own aspirations for the sake of others.

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The lessons in this book would fast forward success for those starting out in life. Great to be reminded for those that are already on their way.

great for those building a network

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Like many of us, I spent so much of my life focusing on me. Me, myself and I. Me, me, and more me. I’ve been working on deconstructing that in a healthy way to live for giving love to others.

I can say that this book did a fantastic job at taking one of the most stereotypical examples of self-centered behavior, networking, and flipping it on its head to become a powerful tool for helping others (which in turn, helps you).

I got a lot out of this book. Although the end is somewhat intense, giving one tips so far as to how to connect with governors and celebrities, I didn’t see it as a drawback, I saw it as a glimpse into the future of what’s possible if one focuses on being a good connector who is focused on helping others.

I’m going to be buying a physical copy of Never Eat Alone so that I can easily pull tips from it in the future!

Thanks, Keith!

Great for those who were self centered and living in isolation

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The first couple chapters of this book do a good job of stressing the importance of relationships with respect to career success. However, the majority of the book focuses on achieving a level of connectivity and contacts that seem to be well beyond the point of diminishing returns. For the sort of person who most needs to focus on increasing/improving relationships to get ahead, it goes much further than what would likely be achievable in practice. I would have appreciated more detail on the basics of how to build useful connections, rather than advocating that people try to build/maintain a massive network and giving advice on how to do so. 99.9% of people will never get to the level the author spends most of the book focusing on, nor would most people's careers be best served by trying to get to this level.

Short on basics

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Outdated tips and quite boring storyline. Most tips seem obvious today and a lot of them simply do not apply in today’s business world. Not very useful book.

Not as valuable anymore.

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