How To Create Your Own Luck

In How to Create Your Own Luck, networking guru Susan RoAne shows us eight traits of successful people who make their own luck, rather than wait for it. She shows readers how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances-which inevitably leads to more opportunities in life and business.
Filled with engaging and instructive stories of real people who've turned serendipity into success, this book reveals the eight counter-intuitive traits that they all have in common, including talking to strangers, making small talk, dropping names, and even eavesdropping. These traits keep people open to new experiences and open the door to good fortune. Perhaps we strike up a conversation in an airport bar that turns into a business relationship, or we mention a friend's name to an associate and find new business opportunities. There are an endless number of ways that luck can lead to new opportunities. But it's really not luck; it's the result of being open to possibilities that pave the way for success. This handy, real-world guide shows readers how to apply RoAne's practical, proven advice to every aspects of their lives. Networking guru Susan RoAne points out that what we think of as luck is often good fortune of our own making and should be seized for the greatest possible gain.

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. The Eight Traits.
2. Lemons to Lemonade.
3. It’s a Small World.
4. The Kindness of Strangers.
5. Necessity Is the Mother (and Father) of Invention.
6. Staying On and Straying Off the Path.
7. Get a Job.
8. Happy Accidents.
9. Who’d’a Thunk It?
“You Never Know!”.
Appendix: The Ten Commandments for Turning Serendipity into Success.
Yiddish Glossary.
Notes.
Resources.
Index.
For Those Desperately Seeking Susan.


Market Description :
Business self-help, general business readers.

About Author :
Susan RoAne is the author of the bestselling business classic How to Work a Room (Spi Publishers, 1992; paperback Warner 2000) as well as The Secrets of Savvy Networking (Warner, 1993) and What Do I Say Next?,(Warner, 1997; paperback, Warner, 1999), which have sold over a million copies combined. Represented by the National Speakers Bureau, she speaks regularly to audiences of thousands nationwide; her seminar clients include Salomon Smith Barney, Chase, Citicorp, Procter & Gamble, and the Wharton School. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as on CNN, NPR and the BBC and she is consistently quoted by leading publications.