Yup it’s another career book people! 🙂 You know you love it.

I would argue one point with the author: eating alone – or in my case getting quiet green tea (Jasmine Dragon Pearl is the best) while scribbling ideas in your notebook – can actually be quite wonderful. Aside from that one point – I agree with everything else you’ve written! And I get that you just needed a cool title 🙂

(headings = mine, quotes all directly from the book)

“She provided me with a simple but profound lesson about the power of generosity. When you help others, they often help you.”

“If you strip business down to its basics, it’s still about people selling things to other people.”

“I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn.”

“Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like.”

“Every successful person I’ve met shared, in varying degrees, a zeal for goal setting.”

Going to a meeting without Googling someone is unacceptable.

In other words, it’s not necessarily strong contacts, like family and close friends, that prove the most powerful; to the contrary, often the most important people in our network are those who are acquaintances.

“When you look back upon a life and career of reaching out to others, you want to see a web of friendships to fall back on, not the ashes of bad encounters.”

“Be yourself. I believe that vulnerability—yes, vulnerability—is one of the most underappreciated assets in business today.”

“But the truth is everyone has something in common with every other person.”

Want the book? It’s over here.

Happy reading,

C x