- Paperback: 203 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (Oct 8 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446390658
- ISBN-13: 978-0446390651
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,847,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An acclaimed guide offers techniques and tips for making profitable social and professional acquaintances at meetings, parties, and other affairs, from learning how to remember names to using humor to ""break the ice."" Reissue."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"How to Work a Room" works for me,
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Work a Room (Hardcover)
How do you judge whether a "How-to" book is worthwhile? With business books, I ask one simple question: After reading the book, did I bring away at least one thing that made a positive, measureable difference in my life? If so, it was worth the time and money spent on it. "How to Work a Room" is just such a book. I picked this book up while waiting for someone, opened it to a random page, and read the short section on meeting people at parties by "acting like a host instead of a guest". A week later I went to a meeting of an organization I wanted to join, and found that I arrived at the same time as the woman in charge. Remembering what I had read, I immediately pitched in (before even introducing myself, and ignoring her pro forma protests) to help her get set up. Along the way, we introduced ourselves, and as the other officers drifted in, I was introduced to them (with the president's obvious stamp of approval), and so on until not only was I known to everybody there, but I was in the thick of things as a comfortable part of the inner circle. Now, maybe everybody else in the world already knows this stuff, but this kinda shy 40-something man didn't. I made more friends and business contacts in 3 hours than I had in the entire month before. Bottom line: I haven't even read more than a few pages yet and I've already got my positive, measureable difference! Buy it, read it, use it.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good topic, poor execution,
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Work a Room (Hardcover)
How to work a room. What a great concept for a book. Unfortunately the book barely delivers. While there were a few good suggestions, this book was too basic and offered little except some common sense ideas. The author seemed more at home talking about how women can meet men than the real art of working a room.In summary great title, very poor execution. I would say more but this book offers very little to respond to.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Keep looking.. this is not the book you need..,
By M. Curry - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How To Work A Room Learn The Strategies Of Savvy Socializing- For Business And Personal Success (Paperback)
..if you really want to learn how to work a room. The book is written for women who are shy. Even if that describes you, there are better books to read. Most of the book addresses the issues of how to shake hands, how not to wear see-through blouses, and how to avoid having sex at trade shows. Unless these are burning issues for you, you will find nothing of value in this book. I am a professional consultant and attend conferences and networking events several times per month. I bought the book in an airport, read the first half, skimmed the second half and left it on the plane for the next person. It was a waste of an hour and a half and [my money]. Save yourself the time and expense, unless you are a 22 year female college grad in her first sales job who needs instruction on who to flirt without getting in over your head and need to be told that you shouldn't have sex at trade shows.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
How to waste money and make this autor rich,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How To Work A Room Learn The Strategies Of Savvy Socializing- For Business And Personal Success (Paperback)
Book tells you what you should be doing but it doesn't tell you HOW, which is what the author promises to do. I felt this book might be good for people who have absolutely no experience with self help books or self improvement but for anyone else it's just fluff. It provides very few examples. All the material could have been nicely summarized in a pamphlet.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good topic, poor execution,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Work a Room (Hardcover)
How to work a room. What a great concept for a book. Unfortunately the book barely delivers. While there were a few good suggestions, this book was too basic and offered little except some common sense ideas. The author seemed more at home talking about how women can meet men than the real art of working a room.In summary great title, very poor execution. I would say more but this book offers very little to respond to. |
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