by Keith Ferrazzi

My new book -- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time -- was recently released by Currency/Doubleday. In Never Eat Alone, I expose many secrets behind the success of so many accomplished people. Most of these secrets involve the power of relationships and how we all can succeed best in business and in life by contributing to the success of others. The mindset and techniques that have helped me meet and connect with so many amazing people, all of which have meant everything to my professional success and personal joy, are distilled into 31 simple and fun chapters that are easy to read and to follow.

The following excerpt is from Never Eat Alone's Chapter 15: "Connecting with Connectors." In this chapter, I discuss super-connectors. You know who I'm talking about. They're the people who make possible "the strength of weak ties," they know and connect people from all walks of life, and they're essential to growing your network -- whatever your mission in life. I even give a quick rundown of seven professions in which you'll find natural super-connectors. Learn the unique talents of each and how best to get on their radar screens, and you just might become a super-connector in your own right!

Chapter 15: Connecting with Connectors It has become part of our accepted wisdom that six degrees is all that separates us from anyone else in the world. How can that be? Because some of those degrees (people) know many, many more people than the rest of us.

Call them super-connectors. We all know at least one person like this individual, who seems to know everybody and who everybody seems to know. You'll find a disproportionate amount of super-connectors as headhunters, lobbyists, fundraisers, politicians, journalists, and public relations specialists, because such positions require these folks' innate abilities. I am going to argue that such people should be the cornerstones to any flourishing network.

What Michael Jordan was to the basketball court, or Tiger Woods is to golf, these people can be to your network. So who are they, really, and how can you get them to become prized members of your circle of associates and friends? ...... READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE<http://www.strategicbusinessnetwork.com/Article101?id=72787>

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