Book Summaries

In this paradigm-shifting book, you’ll discover how to overcome your discomfort through a clear networking system, use your strengths, connect with the right people, and much more.

In The Lost Art of Connecting, “serial connector” and communications expert Susan McPherson offers a simple, three-step methodology to help people go back to basics, tap into our humanity, and learn to be more intentional and authentic.

In this Don’t Be a Stranger, Lawrence R. Perkins explains how you can succeed in business by creating your own luck through strategic relationship building.

In The Connector’s Advantage, Michelle Tillis Lederman shows you what it means to be a Connector and how to become one.

Michael Hyatt, former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, shares the knowledge he has gained from creating an online following of hundreds of thousands by offering step-by-step plans for building your virtual stage.

Solving large issues in today's complex world requires cooperation among diverse stakeholders. Finding Allies, Building Alliances is a guide for anyone tasked with fostering and maintaining an effective, productive and collaborative venture. The first step is to carefully choose a network of participants that will become a powerful alliance. With the right team in place, a framework of eight elements will help your group work together for the mutual benefit of all parties.

Return on Impact hands leaders the tools that associations and other membership organizations can wield in order to harness the opportunities of the socially enabled world and ensure their growth in the coming times. David Nour charts the implications of a socially enabled world and the reinvention - in structure and governance, talent acquisition, listening practices, and business and revenue models - that leaders of organizations must undertake to fuel growth in the next decade.

Keith Ferrazzi, the internationally renowned thought leader, consultant, and bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, shows us that becoming a winner in any field of endeavor requires a trusted team of advisors who can offer guidance and help to hold us accountable to achieving our goals. Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman.” The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships.”

It is true that there are some people who are better connected than others. That means that “connecting” is a skill that can be acquired. This book will help you develop your networking skills, increase your connections, and become part of the roughly 29 percent of people who are, in fact, separated from the rest of the world by just six degrees.