As an introvert who has struggled in the networking scene, i love this book! It gives great practical advice for conversation, manners and has been updated to include social media tips. The author discusses roadblocks to building relationships.

The author has fun with the book and includes some very funny cartoons and comic strips, including the precocious five-year-old girl in her party dress at an adult mixer. It feels like my father or grandfather giving me their words of wisdom, all summ...  Read More

Susan is a very entertaining speaker. She writes in such an easy-to-read manner with fabulous stories and examples throughout. If the information in this book feels familiar, that's because roane championed this approach years ago and has been imitate...  Read More

Reading the latest edition of “how to work a room” is like sitting down with your favorite jewish chatty, funny, and entertaining. From there the author goes into room-working and that’s where her mastery really shows. Includes new chapters on ‘how to...  Read More

How many literate people are really out there so utterly insensitive as to be scanning the room over someone's shoulder while they talk to them; looking for someone better to talk? For the rest of us; the terrible puns, awful content structure, boring...  Read More

This book is full of dated (mailed thank you notes, really? Thick, wordy book. Roane reminds you no less than five times throughout the book that this is a no-no.