Master networker Keith Ferrazzi says the secret is in reaching out to others. As he discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.

Never Eat Alone: Expanded and Updated lays out the steps and mindset Ferrazzi uses to connect with thousands of colleagues, friends and associates: people he has helped and who have helped him. This form of connecting to the world is based on generosity; Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from crude glad-handing.

These practical, proven principles include: don't keep score (make sure other people get what they want, too), 'ping' constantly (reach out to your contacts all the time—not just when you need something), never eat alone ('invisibility' is a fate worse than failure) and become the 'king of content' (use social media to make meaningful connections).

In this classic, global best seller, you'll discover the timeless strategies used by the world's most connected people, from Bill Clinton to the Dalai Lama. And you'll learn how to transform your own network, career and life.

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13 hours and 47 minutes
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Keith Ferrazzi, see all
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Richard Harries
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28 April 2022
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English
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Penguin Audio
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B09YDM1GTN
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	13 hours and 47 minutes
Author	Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz
Narrator	Richard Harries
Audible.in Release Date	28 April 2022
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09YDM1GTN
Best Sellers Rank	#2,093 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #26 in Business Communication (Audible Books & Originals) #26 in Time Management & Productivity #70 in Business Careers

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Shilpi

An engaging and inspiring must-read for success!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 April 2019

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We all know networking is important for success, but this book reinforces that message in a way that makes the readers want to enjoy the process. While it is a long read and the key messages aren’t outlined as well, the book has many useful takeaways. You need the apply it to understand that the tips are actually quite practical and helpful!

Relationships drive everything in life, and this book helps you build new and better ones!

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Nachiket Pusalkar

Made for people that lack social and networking skills

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 October 2015

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As an introvert and a aspiring entrepreneur, I think this book is unparalleled as the most definitive guide to networking. People carry people forward is what I have learned and the authors personal experiences are testament to that.

The book does drag a little towards the end and there might be parts where you might want to skip as they are irrelevant to your personal life.

All in all, a fun read and important book about the importance of relationships in business.

6 people found this helpful

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Vagish Shandilya

100% satisfied with my choice!!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 27 July 2020

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Why did I like the product?
Simply because the author has reflected the idea that we aren't successful on account of our efforts only but there is an involvement of so many people to make every single person successful.

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Siva Sankar

No clarity with hints of self promotion

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 December 2019

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No clarity on the methods to improve networking. Just anecdotes and author’s life story in broken pieces. I personally found ‘ The Go Giver’ as a beautiful alternative to this one and its 1/4th of the pages of this book too.

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Puneet

I would highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with people

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 January 2015

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Must read book. Such is the value of whats mentioned in this book that I wish I had read it when I was in school/college. In simple writing Ferrazzi has hit the right note on the aspects of networking and how its not just an act but a habit of forming, developing and maintaining relationships. Ferrazzi offers practical ideas that one can pick and act upon readily. I would highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with people ! ( That would be everyone ! )

3 people found this helpful

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Sahib Khurana

Highly optimistic non practical advice

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 October 2020

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The author just goes on and on about how ro build meaningful connections with no practical advice and slamming the people building shallow relationships.

In one chapter, the author says vulnerability is a virtue and describes how expressing his vulnerability to a complete stranger once helped him build a deeper connection. However, one must be careful with whom he chooses to be vulnerable. Maybe you want a deeper connection but if the other person only wants to take advantage of you then all of this wont really help.

Dont follow the advice blindly. People will take advantage of you easily.

No amount of your effort will make up for a lack of theirs.

8 people found this helpful

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Dhananjai Bhaskerrao Gumaste

Excellent book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 December 2020

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Very good book

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Ravneet Singh

One of my favorite books

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 October 2018

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The quality of the book is good, and also the book content is also good. If you are in business or not I think you shold read it

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Many useful lessons for successful business relationship management

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 January 2014

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The author - Keith Ferrazzi - is one of those 'super connectors', or put differently, one of the people who always know everybody and who get ahead more through networking and interpersonal excellence than through analytical prowess. In this book he packages up lots of useful advice on how to transition from leading a wallflower existence towards achieving more through cooperative efforts.

This is not to say that reading of the book will per se make you a networking wizard but at least many of the necessary steps for getting there will be laid out and described, the rest being mostly down to getting out there and doing it.

The book covers a wide variety of topics, including upward as well as horizontal and downward management (as the author correctly concludes from his own experience, upward management on its own falls woefully short), subjects such as mentoring, publicity, writing, network maintenance activities, and many more.

The examples given are almost exclusively from the author's own experience, with some limited research findings thrown in on occasion. This is not to say that the findings are any less valid for that, even though the author admits himself that his is not the only possible way.

If you are an experienced manager and / or networker, there may be little in here that is fundamentally new. At the same time, the content is reasonably well packaged, easy to read and sufficiently comprehensive and the book is likely to be a very helpful guide to readers about to enter the job market or being in their early professional career.

Some may be a bit put off by the author's style (somewhat too often praising himself) and the fact that parts come across as a thinly veiled advertorial for his consulting services. A more general area for improvement in my opinion is the light 'ageing' of the advice - not that it is in any way obsolescent but a chapter or so on how some of the lessons can be usefully applied in today's 'compliance' obsessed business world, where many large companies get a shock of occurrences as common as business lunches or conference invitations, would certainly be a welcome addition (and bring the book that much closer to five star status in my opinion).

In the end, experienced networkers will likely find much confirmation of what they do and aspiring ones potentially be helped in avoiding unnecessary mistakes and being more successful at it sooner after reading this book - so you can hardly go wrong with giving it a try.

12 people found this helpful

Miquel

Common sense advice, yet so useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 May 2013

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This book is all about the importance of making and nurturing connections through your professional life. Most people underestimate how important personal relationships in a professional context, while some others might even label it as "endogamy". Yet, the reality is that man is a social animal and like it or not relationships will always be key to career advancement. The author explains how his social skills helped him develop a very successful professional career and provides some tips about how he reaches out to his network whenever he needs to. It is not about selfish profiteering but in looking for opportunities where everyone benefits. A lot of common sense in this book, but still, very inspirational.

3 people found this helpful

Daniel

A must have for life!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 October 2022

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Practical and inspiring.
Helped make many needed mindset shifts to take smarter action in growing socially!

Pablo Villanueva

Mostly about the author himself

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 July 2015

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Over half of the book is dedicated to how brilliant the author is and how wonderful his million anecdotes. A few actionable ideas but few and far between.

27 people found this helpful

David Hurst

Good Practical on Networking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 June 2012

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Excellent book on networking, full of practical advice, starting with title. He is right. Why waste meal times alone. There is always advantage in using this time wisely. I also like the tone of much of the book eg "the Key is success is generosity".

I am not sure it makes sense to dedicate one's whole whole life to working a network. However, I can see that if someone followed Keith Ferrazzi's full approach it would pay off.

Would not bother with Section 4. Contains good points, but too slow.

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