Talk to Strangers
Take special care to appear nonthreatening, and make sure you’re not inadvertently cornering your conversation partner. --Susan RoAne
Talk to strangers. “You-never-know-it-alls” talk to fellow airline passengers, people in line at the supermarket and pretty much anyone else they encounter. But you’ll need to take a different approach on the street than you would at a networking event, cautions Susan RoAne. Take special care to appear nonthreatening, and make sure you’re not inadvertently cornering your conversation partner.
-Susan RoAne, a speaker and author known as the "Mingling Maven," in Seven Traits of the Best Networkers
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