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Keith Ferrazzi

Nacido: July 14, 1966 – Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States

Keith Ferrazzi is an American author and executive coach who writes about networking, relationship-building, leadership, and team collaboration. He is best known for Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back, books that helped popularize relationship-driven professional development; Never Eat Alone became a New York Times bestseller.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Keith Ferrazzi’s public story begins in western Pennsylvania, where he grew up during the 1970s steel downturn. He has described listening to his father talk about life at the mill and watching his parents take whatever work they could find after layoffs hit the region. That background helps explain the through line in his later work: an interest in how teams perform under pressure and how systems either enlarge or waste human effort. After Yale, a stint in manufacturing exposed him to Total Quality Management; after Harvard Business School, he joined Deloitte and rose quickly, becoming the youngest person elected partner and the firm’s global CMO. ((https://www.keithferrazzi.com/about/my-story))

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Success is largely determined by your capacity to influence
-Building Critical Relationships
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Business relationships are personal relationships
-Love In The Time Of Cubicles
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You can build specific networks to accomplish specific tasks
-Be a Relationship Master
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It's not about working a room. It's about identifying someone you find empathetic, comfortable, interesting, and perhaps valuable to you in some way
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In today's interconnected business world, no one can afford to go it alone
-Break Bread, Build Bonds And Never Eat Alone
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A good leader gives feedback, but a great team gives each other feedback
-How Good Leaders Become Great By Never Leading Alone
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The future belongs to those who never lead alone
-Transforming Leadership Into Teamship
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No one can lead alone—nor should they try in today’s environment
-How Elite Organizations Transform Good Teams Into Extraordinary Ones

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"Keith Ferrazzi does for relationships what Tom Peters did for management"

Jack Canfield

"Keith Ferrazzi’s concept of co-elevation provides an actionable methodology for any team to thrive during the decade of exponential change ahead"

Peter H. Diamandis

"Keith Ferrazzi is recognized as a global thought leader in the relational and collaborative sciences"

Forbes

"Ferrazzi points out that a seismic shift is underway, we are moving from isolation and corporate silos to community and collaboration"

Devin Wenig

"Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work"

Arianna Huffington

"Keith Ferrazzi's classic career guide "Never Eat Alone" earned him a widespread reputation for being a master of networking"

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Bill Novelli

"Ferrazzi has gone into the trenches to figure out what it really takes to empower people and make teams more than the sum of their parts"

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