This is the first story in WORK THE POND! Use the Power of Positive Networking to Leap Forward in Work and Life (Prentice Hall). The authors chose this story because it is so typical: it's the kind of thing that could happen to all of us...and does!
"It was a warm summer's evening and John Hunter was patiently waiting in line to see The Phantom of the Opera. The musical had just opened on Broadway. John, a self-admitted "Phantom nut," had flown in from the West Coast just to see it. Over the noise of the traffic, John heard a man speaking Spanish. Many years earlier, John had worked in South America as an engineer for the energy firm Petroleos de Venezuela and was fluent in Spanish. For no other reason that to practice his Spanish and speak to someone else in the line, he turned and started chatting. To his amazement, John realized that this man was his Venezuelan manager's boss--someone he hadn't seen in over fifteen years.
Two months later--out of the blue--John was invited by an international engineering firm to be a senior consultant on a large Venezuelan energy project. Guess who had put John's name forward? The man in the line." Copyright Darcy Rezac. All rights reserved.
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