How to Create Your Own Luck

The "You Never Know" Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity

Susan Roane

237 pages, parution le 17/11/2004

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How to turn random chance into runaway success

In How to Create Your Own Luck, networking guru Susan Roane shows us eight traits of successful people who make their own luck, rather than wait for it. She shows readers how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances-which inevitably leads to more opportunities in life and business.

Filled with engaging and instructive stories of real people who've turned serendipity into success, this book reveals the eight counter-intuitive traits that they all have in common, including talking to strangers, making small talk, dropping names, and even eavesdropping. These traits keep people open to new experiences and open the door to good fortune. Perhaps we strike up a conversation in an airport bar that turns into a business relationship, or we mention a friend's name to an associate and find new business opportunities. There are an endless number of ways that luck can lead to new opportunities. But it's really not luck; it's the result of being open to possibilities that pave the way for success. This handy, real-world guide shows readers how to apply Roane's practical, proven advice to every aspects of their lives.

L'auteur - Susan Roane

SUSAN ROANE is the bestselling author of How to Work a Room, The Secrets of Savvy Networking, and What Do I Say Next?, which have sold more than a million copies combined. She is also an in-demand speaker whose audiences have included Citicorp, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Intel, and the Wharton School. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has appeared on CBS, CNN, NPR, and the BBC.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Eight Traits
Lemons to Lemonade
It's a Small World
The Kindness of Strangers
Necessity Is the Mother (and Father) of Invention
Staying On and Straying Off the Path
Get a Job
Happy Accidents
Who'd'a Thunk It?
"You Never Know!"
Appendix: The Ten Commandments for Turning Serendipity into Success
Yiddish Glossary
Notes
Resources
Index
For Those Desperately Seeking Susan

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Susan Roane
Parution	17/11/2004
Nb. de pages	237
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	447g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471612803