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1. |  BSS The New Rules of Networking By: Rob Yeung Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSS The New Rules of Networking
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Never has this been truer. Networking has become one of the key skills for virtually anyone who wants to get on in their jobs and careers. In fact, in just about any situation, knowing the right person will get you ahead. This book provides the essential rules and secrets to successful networking. It addresses the how, why and who of networking to enable virtually anyone to grasp the key skills and do some serious networking. Far from being a God-given talent, networking is a technique that can be learnt, honed and applied to great effect. Careers...
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2. |  By: Sharon Connolly Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 13-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: STTS: Effective Networking
The measure of your success will most probably not depend on what you know, but who you know! It has never been more important to develop great relationships and ensure that you are in the right place at the right time. When you become an effective networker, opportunities will continually knock at your door. But simply connecting is not enough, and opportunities rarely happen by luck or accident. Skilful networkers plan their networking for a greater return on investment. Confident networkers polish their small talk and conversation to become a charming, popular guest at any event. In her...
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3. |  By: Hervé Bommelaer Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Booster son business
PrésentationEntrepreneur, un métier, une vieLe Networking ne sert pas seulement à retrouver un bon job ou à progresser dans sa carrière. Il constitue aussi une arme remarquablement efficace pour développer ses affaires et optimiser la croissance de son business. Et, bonne pioche, c'est l'un des outils les moins connus du développement commercial !L'auteur veut faire partager à quelques super privilégiés - VOUS, les heureux acheteurs de cet ouvrage novateur -, les meilleures pratiques et les secrets du Networking orienté développement d'affaires.Au sommaireLes dix clefs du Networking pour...
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4. | Rough Cuts  By: David Delaney Publisher: Que Publication Date: 28-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAR-2013 | This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Supercharge the way you network and build
business relationships – online and off!
Business
success is all about connections, relationships,
and networks! In New Business
Networking, Dave Delaney shows how to combine proven
offline business
networking
techniques with the newest social media–and make them both
far
more
effective. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience building great
online
and offline
communities, Delaney offers easy step-by-step directions, plus
case
studies from
some of the world’s top relationship...
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5. |  By: Pamela Rykman Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stiletto Network Behind every great woman . . . are other great women! In numbers never seen before, ambitious women are joining forces in every major American city, forming salons, dinner groups, and networking circles?and collaborating to achieve clout and success. A new girls’ network is alive and set to hyperdrive, and it’s upending all the old rules about how power is allocated and business practiced. Stiletto Network is an up-close and personal account of the groundswell of women’s groups changing the face of business: the “Power Bitches”; “Brazen Hussies”; “S.L.U.T.S.” (Successful Ladies Under...
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6. |  By: Allison Graham Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Want to supercharge your life? Effective networking is the answer and this book will teach you how.
Professionals of all stripes and ages are told to 'get out there' and network so they can build their careers, grow their businesses and elevate their influence in the community, but they are rarely taught the skills to do that. Most people are lost, intimidated by the idea of presenting their own personal brand, and frustrated when it comes to networking. Despite long hours at events and attempts to make the right connections, they aren't seeing their desired results.
From Business...
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7. |  By: Daphne Clifton Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication Date: 01-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Network with Confidence
Are you fed up with trawling round networking events that take vast amounts of time for little return? Do you feel queasy stepping into a room of total strangers to represent yourself or your business? Then this is the book you've been waiting for.
Networking is something that can really improve our career prospects, but it is something that many people actively dread. With advice on how to conquer your nerves, ask the right questions, find out about the right events (and work out which ones to avoid), this book offers a straightforward approach to networking that will build...
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8. |  The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking By: Heather Townsend Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 27-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking If you’re a busy professional, networking is the fastest and most effective way to build your business or career. Networking is a skill you can’t afford to be without. But what’s the best way to do it? The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking is your definitive introduction to a joined-up networking strategy that really works. Joined-up networking is the most effective way to win more business, climb the career ladder or set up and grow your own business. In this book, professional networker Heather Townsend guides you through everything you need to know to get the most out of both...
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9. |  Networking for People Who Hate Networking By: Devora Zack Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 27-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Networking for People Who Hate Networking Most books for people who would rather get a root canal than face a roomful of strangers tell readers how to fight against their personal preferences, and how to overcome their supposed shortcomings. In contrast, avowed introvert Devora Zack shows readers how to become ace networkers by learning to harness and repurpose the very traits that ordinarily make them regard mingling and small talk as a waste of time or a form of torture....
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10. |  Brilliant Networking, 2nd Edition By: Steven D'Souza Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 27-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 27-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Brilliant Networking, 2nd Edition Being brilliant at networking is the essential skill for personal and career success, whether going after a dream job, branching out and starting a business or simply to meet new people. With new and updated chapters, the second edition of this book will show you how to become a brilliant networker. Packed full of tried and tested techniques and secrets from some of the UKs most successful networkers, Brilliant Networking, Second Edition contains useful tools, anecdotes and real life examples of people who have used networking to secure their dream jobs,...
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11. |  By: Michelle T Lederman Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 15-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
We all know that networking is important, and that forming relationships with others is a vital part of success.
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12. |  Networking: Work your contacts to supercharge your career By: Nicolas King Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 17-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 21-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Networking: Work your contacts to supercharge your career
The Old Boy Network, real or imagined, is a powerful thing. Wouldn't it be great if you had access to all the right people and knew the rights things to do and say to turn casual acquaintances into useful contacts? Imagine if you could use the names stored in your Filofax to help you achieve your goal. Many hands may make light work, but knowing the right people is even more effective. With the help of the expert ideas and advice in Networking readers will discover how they can get more out of their contacts, both personal and professional. Learn how to cultivate existing contacts, turn...
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13. |  By: Frances Kay Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Networking
The benefits of networking are many — improving the chances of keeping a job, getting a new (better) one, career progression, learning how to get along with others, and improving personal effectiveness and company performance. Successful Networking is designed to encourage people to “network for success” by removing the fear associated with networking. It gives advice and guidance on: finding the right networks, networking groups, networking in the virtual community, first impressions, the skill of conversation, coping with rejection, the elevator pitch, following up, sharing information...
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14. |  101 Successful Networking Strategies By: Eric P. Kramer Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 16-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 24-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 101 Successful Networking Strategies Now business professionals and job seekers can master the strategies needed to maximize networking opportunities and achieve results with the fast-paced, effective approach found only in Kramer's 101 SUCCESSFUL NETWORKING STRATEGIES. Written by accomplished career coach and clinical psychologist Eric Kramer, this unique book applies the latest research in social intelligence and brain science to networking like no other book. Easy to read and understand, with strategies that are simple to implement, 101 SUCCESSFUL NETWORKING STRATEGIES offers a wealth of recommendations today's readers can...
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Supercharge Your Social Media Strategies (Collection) By: Rawn Shah; Reshma Shah; Jamie Turner; Monique Reece; Michael Tasner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Supercharge Your Social Media Strategies (Collection) 3 expert guides to profiting from the
latest social and mobile marketing tools and platforms!
Master powerful, real-world techniques for
using social media to grow sales, revenues, and profits! Plan and
implement a social media roadmap that makes sense for your
company… choose the right social and mobile platforms, and
carefully nurture your presence… discover brand-new
“Web 3.0” channels, drive maximum value from those that
work, and avoid those that don’t!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
Jamie Turner, Dr. Reshma Shah, Rawn Shah,
and
Michael Tasner...
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16. |  By: Barry Libert Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
It's time to join Social Nation and prosper! This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As a leader and manager, you'll find out how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. This book relies on well-known case studies about businesses that illustrate how...
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17. |  Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself Publisher: Que Publication Date: 17-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 09-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself Praise for Branding
Yourself
"Branding Yourself is a good
beginner's guide on how to build an online presence using social
networks and blogs that will turn you into a thought leader or
expert or just get you a job."
–Dan Schawbel, #1 International
Bestselling Author of Me 2.0
"The biggest problem most people have with
embracing the power of online networking and personal brand
building is they don't know where to start. Erik Deckers and Kyle
Lacy take out the guesswork and roll the dice with platforms to
find the right combination for you in this book. The book is a
recipe for...
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18. | Overview: We Are All Producers Now Every era has its model of business
practice. In the 1950s, it was the organization man. In the 1970s,
it was the gamesman. Going forward, the model is the
producer. The reason is simple: The world is nothing if not
unstable.
In this absurdist jungle, trust was a quaint
anachronism. Contracts for millions of dollars were actually
written on the back of a napkin, notwithstanding Samuel
Goldwyn’s famous observation that verbal agreements
aren’t worth the paper they are written on. Sometimes, just a
handshake sufficed. When doors opened, it was not because of the
quality of your ideas or the...
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19. |  By: Lee Hecht Harrison Publisher: Career Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Highly Effective Networking
Virtually all job hunting experts agree that networking is the best way to find a great job. But most people don’t have connections to the decision makers who do the hiring.
And “networking” books, which are mostly written by and for salespeople, suggest aggressive tactics, often confusing these with real networking. They focus on building a powerful network over the course of a lifetime. But when you need a new job, you don’t have time to build a huge, powerful network. You’ve got to use the network you already have.
Orville Pierson, a top expert in job hunting, tells you how to...
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20. |  An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create By: Curt Grayson; David Baldwin Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 04-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create
Leadership networking is not about collecting business cards or schmoozing. It's about building relationships and making alliances in service of others and in service of your organization's work and goals. This book will show you how to enhance your networks and become effective at leadership networking. By seeing networking as an integral part of your role as a leader and by taking action to develop and nurture related skills, you create benefits for yourself, your group, and your organization.
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