How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits (BUSINESS BOOKS) - Hardcover

Robinett, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071830731 ISBN 13: 9780071830737

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2014

Synopsis

Create a personal "power grid" of influence to spark professional and personal success

"Other people have the answers, deals, money, access, power, and influence you need to get what you want in this world. To achieve any goal, you need other people to help you do it." -- JUDY ROBINETT

As anyone in business knows, strategic planning iscritical to achieving long-term success. In How to Be a Power Connector, super-networker Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority.

When you combine your specific skills and talents with a clear, workable path for creating and managing your relationships, nothing will stop you from meeting your goals. With high-value connections, you'll tap into a dynamic "power grid" of influence guaranteed to accelerate your personal and professional success.

Robinett uses her decades of experience connecting the world's highest achievers with one another to help you build high-value relationships. She reveals all the secrets of her trade, including proven ways to:

• Find and enter the best network "ecosystem" to meet your goals
• Reach even the most unreachable people quickly and effectively
• Get anyone's contact information within 30 seconds
• Create a "3-D connection" that adds value to multiple people at the same time
• Access key infl uencers through industry and community events
• Subtly seed conversation with information about interests and needs
• Use social media to your best advantage

Robinett has based her methods on solid researchproving that social groups begin to break up when they become larger than 150 people, and that 50 members is the optimal size for group communication. As such, she has developed what she calls the "5+50+100" method: contact your top 5 connections daily, your Key 50 weekly, and your Vital 100 monthly. this is your power grid, and it will work wonders for your career.

Nothing will stop you when you learn How to Be aPower Connector.

PRAISE FOR HOW TO BE A POWER CONNECTOR:

"Unlike many books in this genre, this one is written by a woman who has lived it.. . . Judy Robinett offers guidance on how to form authentic relationships thatbring mutual benefits." -- ADAM GRANT, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

"How to Be a Power Connector is like an MBA in networking: an advanced course in finding and developing quality relationships with the people who can make the biggest difference in your professional success." -- IVAN MISNER, founder and chairman of BNI

"Talk about power! Follow Judy Robinett's logical, straightforward, and helpfully detailed advice, and you can be a 'Power Connector' yourself! Great ideas, wellpresented, with no ‘wasted space’ in her argument!" -- DON PEPPERS, coauthor of Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage

"Absolutely brilliant. A step-by-step guide to building a network that will be both invaluable to you and just as valuable to those whose lives you will now have theopportunity to touch. I can't imagine a more powerful book for one who truly desires to be a Power Connector." -- BOB BURG, coauthor of The Go-Giver and author of Adversaries into Allies

"In the C-Suite or in your personal life everything comes down to the quality of your relationships. Judy's book helps you attract and maintain the relationships that will get you what you want most. Be a super connector now!" -- JEFFREY HAYZLETT, TV host and bestselling author of Running the Gauntlet

About this title

About the Author:

JUDY ROBINETT is a business thought leader, powerful speaker, and one of the nation's leading experts on helping leaders develop strategic business relationships. Known as "the woman with the titanium digital rolodex," and labeled by Forbes and the New York Times as "a new breed of power connector," she has served as the CEO of public and private companies and in executive roles at some of the top corporations in the world and helped entrepreneurs and businesses to access millions of dollars in funding.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0071830731
• ISBN 13: 9780071830737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256