Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter Hardcover – Big Book, 29 March 2018

Das Buch bricht Elemente von Beziehungen bzw. Situationen innerhalb Beziehungen runter auf nützliche und leicht anwendbare Tipps für den Alltag.Einige Aha Momente, die mir eigene Fehler im Umgang mit meinen Mitmenschen vor Augen geführt haben, waren bei mir die Folge

This post is by Larry Wetzel and I read the book. There are many valuable lessons to be learned from this book and not just for those attempting to provide guidance to business owners and entrepreneurs. I have been in the corporate world with positions from Account Executive to Vice President of Sales and have read many books on sales and sales management and have gone to sales/sales management training sessions over a 40+ year career.This book has very good ideas that can be incorporated into the corporate world as well as for business owners and entrepreneurs related to building and maintaining relationships, and networking. It speaks to the best ways to secure business contacts, and build relationships at all levels in the corporate world, that can be used to make B2B sales people very successful.I am recommending this as reading to a sales/sales management consultant friend as the learning he gets from it could be used in his training programs.

Scott & Ryan are honest and straight forward in providing advice and tips from those who have already "won" at relationship building - a sound foundation of ideas, from which you can pick and choose what will work for you.Superconnector is full of gems like the generally sound life advice of being habitually generous to those around you, to the slightly counterintuitive ideas that the best Superconnectors are introverts (there's hope for me yet!) and that they are more protective of their time and relationships than one might assume.After reading this book, I'm excited to go down the path of bringing more meaningful business relationships into my life.

Too much anecdotal evidence not enough science.

Blech. I bought this book hoping that I could use it to help my staff form compelling connections that will support them through their careers (they are mostly millenials, I'm Gen X). The authors' message is simplistic--know yourself and go into relationships seeking to help others rather than just yourself. I would hope that this would be pretty obvious. But what really turned me off is the bro-ish attitude that permeates the book. In chapter 5 there's a lengthy discussion of the guy who buys gifts for "executives he wanted to meet--and their wives." The implication that there are no female CEOs whose husbands (or same-sex partners, etc.) are worth wooing is repugnant. I skimmed the rest of the book but found nothing compelling in the subsequent chapters.Don't waste your money on this. If you want to know more about EQ or self-awareness, there are lots of good articles and books out there. And if you aren't already committed to acting altruistically, I'm not sure that any book is going to convince you to do so.