How to Create Your Own Luck : The 'you Never Know' Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity

Networking guru Susan RoAne shows readers how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances--the key to new life opportunities. In How to Create Your Own Luck, she reveals the eight traits of successful people who make their own luck, rather than wait for it. Filled with engaging and instructive stories of real people who've turned serendipity into success, her book focuses on the eight counterintuitive traits that they all have in common, including talking to strangers, making small talk, dropping names, and even eavesdropping. This handy, real-world guide reveals the practical ways that anyone can create their own luck--opening up new opportunities in every aspect of life. How to turn random chance into runaway success: networking guru 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 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.--From publisher description How to turn random chance into runaway success 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 Shows how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances, the key to new life opportunities. Offering stories of people who've turned serendipity into success, this book focuses on the eight counterintuitive traits that they have in common, including talking to strangers, making small talk, and eavesdropping. What is it about some people-the ones who create their own luck-that makes them successful?