How to Work a Room : The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing In Person and Online

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Summary: A Solid Effort!
Review: Whether you're working a room at a cocktail party, a fund-raiser, a special event, or a reunion, or just standing in line at the grocery store, Susan RoAne has plenty of tips to help you lose your jitters and enjoy yourself. Stressing the business and social benefits of making lively conversation and having the ability to "work the room," this book covers every stage of an event, from planning how you'll deal with it, to whether you should send a thank-you note afterwards. Written in a lively style, this book is a quick read that includes just enough anecdotes, and plenty of no-nonsense, though not subtle, tips. We at getAbstract recommend it to everyone who ever has to go anywhere, and wants to know how to make the most of it.

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Summary: People who love people
Review: Who would want to "work a room"? Someone trying to sell something, maybe? If you're not selling anything overtly, this book will not be of interest. I say overtly because, as someone once pointed out, we're all selling something, but we need not do so overtly or manifestly. But by our behavior. Actions and words and all. This book, and others like it, all have us looking outward for gratification, basically from other people, people "in the room." "In the room" can be a metaphor for the "in crowd." Do you want in with the in crowd? Maybe you'll learn some tools from this book. Then again, you might do better looking inward at yourself. Listen to one of the great modern inward-seekers, Vernon Howard (excuse the gender specificity, it's an old book): "A man owes nothing to any other human being on earth except to be himself, but since few see this, most men stagger under the burdensome debt of artificial behavior. It is a tragic illusion that we can do anything for others before we have done something for ourselves." The writer of "How to work a room" is essentially focusing on how to improve your artificial behavior. Diximus.

Rating:
Summary: People who love people
Review: Who would want to "work a room"? Someone trying to sell something, maybe? If you're not selling anything overtly, this book will not be of interest. I say overtly because, as someone once pointed out, we're all selling something, but we need not do so overtly or manifestly. But by our behavior. Actions and words and all. This book, and others like it, all have us looking outward for gratification, basically from other people, people "in the room." "In the room" can be a metaphor for the "in crowd." Do you want in with the in crowd? Maybe you'll learn some tools from this book. Then again, you might do better looking inward at yourself. Listen to one of the great modern inward-seekers, Vernon Howard (excuse the gender specificity, it's an old book): "A man owes nothing to any other human being on earth except to be himself, but since few see this, most men stagger under the burdensome debt of artificial behavior. It is a tragic illusion that we can do anything for others before we have done something for ourselves." The writer of "How to work a room" is essentially focusing on how to improve your artificial behavior. Diximus.