Your Invisible Network: How to Create, Maintain, and Leverage the Relationships That Will Transform Your Career

Create, maintain, and leverage professional relationships—in only 20 minutes a day.

Meaningful relationships are a must-have to sustain and further your career. A network built on reciprocity, depth, and trust isn't merely helpful to your career growth; it is absolutely necessary. Your skills, work ethic, education, lived experience, passions—all these will only achieve their full potential when paired with meaningful relationships.

Your Invisible Network provides a practical, nuanced plan for building and sustaining a network that will supercharge your growth—from author Michael Urtuzuástegui Melcher, an internationally acclaimed executive coach and leadership expert who has partnered with professionals in nearly every field for decades. Every chapter of Your Invisible Network contains compelling true stories along with quick lessons and manageable practice exercises that even the busiest of professionals can fit into their schedules.

As you take immediate action to build and deepen your network, you'll learn how to:

• Recognize the seven types of relationships critical for your career success, 
• Foster meaningful connections with people with whom you have little in common,
• Find mentors and sponsors,
• Reach out to people despite discomfort—and know what to do if they don't respond,
• Serve as a resource and benefactor to others,
• Develop your convening power, and
• Build a happier and more fulfilled work life. 

No matter what career stage you're in, it's time to re-evaluate your network and equip yourself with the tools to boost its power—your secret weapon for career success.

About the Author

Michael Urtuzuástegui Melcher is an internationally known executive coach and leadership expert. Over the past 20 years, he has helped senior executives, entrepreneurs, attorneys, investment bankers, White House appointees, tech wizards, healthcare leaders, community activists, board chairs, parents returning to the workforce, and young people just starting out. Melcher attended public schools before earning a BA from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford.

Reviews

“This is a book that will share immediate practical steps for achieving your career potential. That alone makes it worth the price of purchase. But it’s also a fascinating, engaging, entertaining read. Michael Melcher doesn’t just know his stuff. He can really write.” —George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, Host of Good Morning America and This Week with George Stephanopoulos

“We all recognize the value of a network―but how exactly do we build our network? In this invaluable resource, Michael Melcher clarifies the process by providing clear strategies, real-life examples and models, and manageable steps.” —Gretchen Rubin, Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, and host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin

“Michael Melcher has written a clear manual with elegant proofs and a sense of humour. Your Invisible Network takes the mystery and, most importantly, the stress out of building a personal network in a way that, to quote Michael, ‘fits into your life as it is right now.’” —Daniel Sturman, CTO, Roblox

Dimensions: 16.03 x 2.51 x 23.65 cm