People Power: How to Create a Lifetime Network for Business, Career, and Personal Advancement [Paperback]

Donna Fisher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 1995

Offers fresh insights and practical advice about successful networking.

Editorial Reviews

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An excellent resource for anyone who wants to build a strong network that keeps on working. John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

An exciting, uplifting, empowering book. These principles really do work, whether youre trying to get ahead in a job, establish a business, or raise $100 million. Scott DeGarmo, former publisher and editor-in-chief, Success magazine

About the Author

Donna Fisher is a nationally known authority on networking whose dynamic platform style makes her a much sought after motivational speaker and trainer. She is the founder and owner of Discovery Seminars of Houston, a training firm specializing in programs that inspire and educate people to take positive action in their lives, and the co-author of Power Networking: 55 Secrets for Personal and Professional Success, a bestselling favorite among business professionals in a broad range of industries.

Prior to forming her company, Donna held positions in sales, marketing, and management with Exxon, McDonnell Douglas Automation Company, and the Houston Center for Attitudinal Healing. Today, she conducts corporate trainings and keynote presentations internationally on topics ranging from business development to communication and interpersonal skill building to developing personal and professional networks and support systems. She has trained top and middle management, sales and marketing staff, and support personnel for Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses.

She lives in Houston, Texas.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Bard Press (October 11, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885167113
• ISBN-13: 978-1885167118
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donna Fisher loves to create and grow fun and profitable businesses - and teach others how to do the same. For over 18 years, she's been teaching people the art and skill of communicating and connecting. Donna shows professionals how to communicate and connect to create powerful teams, marketplace visibility and new opportunities. She is a Certified Instructor for the Language of Mastery program based on the book "Conscious Language". Her businesses include a music store specializing in drums and percussion, which sponsors a drumming charity event to raise money for schools with under-funded music programs. She also markets an online technology for staying connected with clients and prospects.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bottom Line on PEOPLE POWER is your Bottom Line, February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: People Power: How to Create a Lifetime Network for Business, Career, and Personal Advancement (Paperback)

I'm an IS Professional, more at home with computer networks than people networks. I've always put my faith in hard facts and quick answers. Reading Donna's book taught me that my relationships with people were more important than the work I performed for them.

I learned that networking is not a strategy but a Lifestyle. It was fun to read and full of special sections I used to apply each Power Principle. I used the questions in the "Pause" sections to develop a daily networking action plan. It helped double my active client list in just six months.

This book reminds us that we need to give before we can receive. Give this book to yourself today so you can receive the benefits immediately!

My Favorite Quote: "The truth is that the more high-tech we get, the more high touch we'll require."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your 30 Second Commercial, October 2, 2002

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Carmen Matthews "The Serene Samurai" (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: People Power: How to Create a Lifetime Network for Business, Career, and Personal Advancement (Paperback)

If you have ever been to a meeting where their are say, 100's of people, all whom you don't know, it's not easy to stand up and give a 30 second "commmercial" about yourself, as you pan you audience.

You might tend to say, "Who are these people? What do they want from me? I don't want to be here, doing this."

Well, with the help of reading this easy to follow book, you will learn to enjoy writing your own 30 second commercial, and knowing that commercial so well, that each time you are invited to a meeting, it will take you only 10 seconds to adjust your commercial according to the type of meeting, whose there, and how you relate to them.

Then you will dazzle them in 30 seconds.

Read this book to introduce the best of yourself to yourself, and to others - it will mark another milestone in your life's journey.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars People Power inspired me to connect to people in a new way., March 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: People Power: How to Create a Lifetime Network for Business, Career, and Personal Advancement (Paperback)

I have begun to use just a few of Donna's principles and already am noticing a change in myself when talking with others. The power of interdependence and support is awesome.

I recommend People Power wholeheartedly to anyone who is tired of going it alone and wants a shift in the way they interact with others.