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Book Review: Never Eat Alone
Rodney Reid, Contributing Writer (OH)
Issue date: 2/28/05 Section: A&E
Never Eat Alone offers tips, suggestions, and strategies for navigating conferences, building your personal brand, attracting other connected people, mastering the art of small talk, finding mentors, and much more. Fezzarri masterfully mixes simple advice and concrete steps, such as "don't keep score", "ping constantly", and "never eat alone" that leads readers down the path to improvement. In the book's "Connector's Hall of Fame Profiles", Ferrazzi explains how people like Vernon Jordon and Benjamin Franklin improved their positions by forging deep relationships with others.
This book is a must have for anyone who thinks they know the rules of getting ahead. Never Eat Alone convincingly makes the argument that the best way to become successful is to help make everyone around you successful. "Connecting is a philosophy of life, a world view. Its guiding principle is that people, all people, every person you meet, is an opportunity to help and to be helped." Ferrazzi points out that success today is not about rugged individualism, but relationships: "Flat out, people do business with people they know and like."
This book is a must have for anyone who thinks they know the rules of getting ahead. Never Eat Alone convincingly makes the argument that the best way to become successful is to help make everyone around you successful. "Connecting is a philosophy of life, a world view. Its guiding principle is that people, all people, every person you meet, is an opportunity to help and to be helped." Ferrazzi points out that success today is not about rugged individualism, but relationships: "Flat out, people do business with people they know and like."
