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"A mother lode of timely, hard-earned, bite-size, street-smart golden nuggets-- invaluable for job seekers, employed or unemployed."
--Stephen Covey

"[Harvey Mackay] joins Bob Townsend (Up the Organization) as master of brief, biting, and brilliant business wit and wisdom."
--Tom Peters --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty contains Harvey's gold-chip advice, accumulated over a lifetime of business success, on how to build and maintain the network you need. Harvey guarantees you'll never be more than a phone call away from a person in the position to help you get what you want--whether it's the job opportunity of a lifetime or a lifetime partner, the sales prospect of your dreams or the career advice you've only dreamed of. Harvey shows you how to create a network of trusted, valuable contacts that is worth its weight in platinum.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a good self-help book, Mar 24 2003

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Robertson Thomas (Hapcheon, Gyeongnam, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dig Your Well before You're Thirsty: The only networking book you'll ever need (Paperback)

If you want to read more self-help books but you're tired of the same old put-on-a-happy-face drivel, this may be the book for you. The main theme of the book is this: keep a list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of people you meet and stay in touch with them. Moreover, do occasional favors for them because you might someday need favors FROM them.

The book is interesting. It is liberally dosed with anecdotes and second-person pronouns--two factors which help greatly in making a book interesting.

However, I'm ashamed that I haven't put the book into better practice. In response to the book, I made an e-mail mailing list of people whom I know and sent them an annual newsletter--except that I skipped last year because I didn't have anything to say.

I hope you read this book, and I hope you put it into practice better than I have.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Author's review of DIG YOUR WELL BEFORE YOUR'RE THIRSTY, Nov 28 2002

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John C. Durkin (Cleveland, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dig Your Well before You're Thirsty: The only networking book you'll ever need (Paperback)

Before reading DIG YOUR WELL BEFORE YOUR'RE THIRSTY I first of all found the title catchy. It lets you know the book is basically geared toward career or business use of networking. It also places much emphasis on the planning aspects of networking.

The author takes great pains in giving examples of testimonials to the power of networking. Lou Holtz's Networking Story is a good example of how networking paid off big time. He talks about the basics of what a network is and is not. He explains that networking is a two-way activity. Today you help someone who is networking and tomorrow that same person may help you or others to network for ideas.

The author goes to great length to encourage those who might be a bit timmed about approaching another person in a networking situation to go for it. He uses humor to make his point by saying "Come on in, No shark sighting today."

The only minor criticism I have of the work is that it is limited to focusing on networking only in the career transition and business area. There are many more areas that networking principles can be applied.

Overall I would give it a four star rating.

John C. Durkin
author of NETLIVING 101, Networking Life's Journey
Cleveland, Ohio

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book Mr. MacKay, Sep 6 2002

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This review is from: Dig Your Well before You're Thirsty: The only networking book you'll ever need (Paperback)

I have been a fan of Harvey MacKay since I read Swim with the Sharks. With so many business books out there, it's great to see one written by someone who has actually been and is in the trenches and thereby speaks from experience.Add this one to your library. It's outstanding.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste
I found this book filled with far too much fluff and not enough valuable information. The author told far too many stories and never really got to the point. Read more

Published on Feb 17 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Networking for success (The Mackay way)
Diq your well before you're thirsty is the only networking book you'll ever need. In 83 chapters and 310 pages you'll learn everything you need to know to succeed. Read more

Published on Aug 30 2003