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Networking for Life: The Ecademy Guide to Power Networking
Networking for Life is a lifestyle manual on how to make a living by networking.
Written by Thomas Power, a renowned and prolific networker who takes more than 1,000 one-on-one meetings each year, this book describes how you can turn relationship capital into financial capital and make networking an enjoyable lifelong habit.
Thomas is the Chairman of Ecademy, the global online and offline network that connects business people. Ecademy is the first 21st century association - a gathering of like-minded individuals seeking mutual benefits, companionship and camaraderie in an informal but well-supported environment.
Thomas sees incomes in the western world threatened by 50% deflation due to competition from lower-cost regions. The average westerner is ill prepared for the rapid decline in income that will hit us all during the next decades. As skilled labour continues to move to India, China, South Africa, Malaysia and Eastern Europe, people in the "old world" are finding their own market value plummeting. But there is a way to not only survive but thrive in this altered climate- simply by creating and nurturing human relationships. Thomas has discovered how to do this through relentless daily research, refining his approach during a lifetime dedicated to meeting and learning about people.
Thomas has conducted over 4,000 meetings, read over 300 books, read more than 200,000 emails, and spoken at more than 1,000 events and conferences in his role as a network leader. He aggregates and shares his knowledge constantly as he develops his approach and seeks a solution to the crucial economic and lifestyle issues of our time. Networking for Life is the first in a series of books that will show how you can create a new network-based lifestyle, and build an income and pension around networking. It's not easy and it takes huge amounts of time and hard work. But Thomas has blazed the trail, preparing the way for the rest of us.
Thomas isn't a crystal-ball gazer. He lives the networking life in real time, discovering the potholes and the minefields ahead for those just embarking on their journey. The new world Thomas reveals revolves around investment rather than revenue, volume rather than quality, and a combination of home working and global travel rather than office-bound life.
Thomas Power is a historian, economist, qualified marketer and professional salesperson. He is a non-executive director of QXL plc and Insightexec.com (a BT Group plc division), and chairs Ecademy. He is the author of The E-Business Advantage (1998), The Battle of the Portals (1999), E to the Power of 12 (2000) and Ecosystem - The 12 Principles of e-business (2001).
Written by Thomas Power, a renowned and prolific networker who takes more than 1,000 one-on-one meetings each year, this book describes how you can turn relationship capital into financial capital and make networking an enjoyable lifelong habit.
Thomas is the Chairman of Ecademy, the global online and offline network that connects business people. Ecademy is the first 21st century association - a gathering of like-minded individuals seeking mutual benefits, companionship and camaraderie in an informal but well-supported environment.
Thomas sees incomes in the western world threatened by 50% deflation due to competition from lower-cost regions. The average westerner is ill prepared for the rapid decline in income that will hit us all during the next decades. As skilled labour continues to move to India, China, South Africa, Malaysia and Eastern Europe, people in the "old world" are finding their own market value plummeting. But there is a way to not only survive but thrive in this altered climate- simply by creating and nurturing human relationships. Thomas has discovered how to do this through relentless daily research, refining his approach during a lifetime dedicated to meeting and learning about people.
Thomas has conducted over 4,000 meetings, read over 300 books, read more than 200,000 emails, and spoken at more than 1,000 events and conferences in his role as a network leader. He aggregates and shares his knowledge constantly as he develops his approach and seeks a solution to the crucial economic and lifestyle issues of our time. Networking for Life is the first in a series of books that will show how you can create a new network-based lifestyle, and build an income and pension around networking. It's not easy and it takes huge amounts of time and hard work. But Thomas has blazed the trail, preparing the way for the rest of us.
Thomas isn't a crystal-ball gazer. He lives the networking life in real time, discovering the potholes and the minefields ahead for those just embarking on their journey. The new world Thomas reveals revolves around investment rather than revenue, volume rather than quality, and a combination of home working and global travel rather than office-bound life.
Thomas Power is a historian, economist, qualified marketer and professional salesperson. He is a non-executive director of QXL plc and Insightexec.com (a BT Group plc division), and chairs Ecademy. He is the author of The E-Business Advantage (1998), The Battle of the Portals (1999), E to the Power of 12 (2000) and Ecosystem - The 12 Principles of e-business (2001).
110 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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October 31, 2020
This for me was a seminal book.
Badly lacking at the time in networking skills, this book truly opened my eyes to where I needed to go.
Ever since, I have practiced the truly insightful advice offered, with the Prince among Princes being "network with intent".
Taking that advice forward, I'm now far better equipped to network with investors, former traders, former bankers, many of whom do genuinely want to see change for better.
And it's very clear to me, networking and sales are very different animals. But sales built from a networking base gives a clean true version of what Steven R Covey defines delightfully as win win business.
So thank you Thomas, you put this wanderer on a straight and true path that I have followed religiously ever since.
Badly lacking at the time in networking skills, this book truly opened my eyes to where I needed to go.
Ever since, I have practiced the truly insightful advice offered, with the Prince among Princes being "network with intent".
Taking that advice forward, I'm now far better equipped to network with investors, former traders, former bankers, many of whom do genuinely want to see change for better.
And it's very clear to me, networking and sales are very different animals. But sales built from a networking base gives a clean true version of what Steven R Covey defines delightfully as win win business.
So thank you Thomas, you put this wanderer on a straight and true path that I have followed religiously ever since.
January 24, 2008
I have a copy signed by the author! A good straightforward read.
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