How to Create Your Own Luck: The "You Never Know" Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity

by Susan RoAne

• ISBN13: 9780471612803
• ISBN10: 0471612804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Networking guru Susan RoAne shows readers how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances-the key to new life opportunities. In How to Create Your Own Luck, she reveals the eight traits of successful people who make their own luck, rather than wait for it. Filled with engaging and instructive stories of real people who've turned serendipity into success, her book focuses on the eight counterintuitive traits that they all have in common, including talking to strangers, making small talk, dropping names, and even eavesdropping. This handy, real-world guide reveals the practical ways that anyone can create their own luck-opening up new opportunities in every aspect of life.

Author Biography

SUSAN ROANE is the bestselling author of How to Work a Room®, The Secrets of Savvy Networking, and What Do I Say Next?, which have sold more than a million copies combined. She is also an in-demand speaker whose audiences have included Citicorp, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Intel, and the Wharton School. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has appeared on CBS, CNN, NPR, and the BBC.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	xi
The Eight Traits	1	(26)
Lemons to Lemonade	27	(20)
It's a Small World	47	(30)
The Kindness of Strangers	77	(18)
Necessity Is the Mother (and Father) of Invention	95	(26)
Staying On and Straying Off the Path	121	(26)
Get a Job	147	(28)
Happy Accidents	175	(20)
Who'd'a Thunk It?	195	(24)
``You Never Know!''	219	(9)
Appendix
The Ten Commandments for Turning Serendipity into Success	221	(1)
Yiddish Glossary	222	(6)
Notes	228	(2)
Resources	230	(1)
Index	231	(7)
For Those Desperately Seeking Susan	238