Know Who You Know: Connect Deeply, Succeed Fully - Softcover

Meshel, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798995983613

Verlag: Jeffrey W. Meshel, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

"We often focus on systems, data, and strategy when assessing risk but overlook the most important variable: people. Jeffrey Meshel's Know Who You Know highlights how relationships can either strengthen or undermine everything we build. It's a smart, practical, and highly relevant book for leaders who understand that trust is the ultimate currency."

--Harley Lippman, Founder & CEO, Genesis10

Know Who You Know: Connect Deeply, Succeed Fully is a powerful and deeply human exploration of the relationships that shape our lives, our opportunities, and our destiny. Jeffrey W. Meshel argues that success is not determined by how many people we know, but by how well we truly understand them-their character, values, capacity to stand with us in moments of crisis, and the unexpected ways they may transform our future. At a time when networking has become shallow and transactional, Meshel offers something richer: a guide to building a life anchored in trust, discernment, and meaningful connection.

Drawing on decades of experience and a network of more than 15,000 relationships, Meshel brings together stories that are as emotionally resonant as they are instructive. He shares the painful lessons of betrayal through the story of a longtime business partner whose deception cost him dearly, while also showing how discernment can be rebuilt through reflection, courage, and better questions.

At the heart of the book is one of its most moving chapters, Heart to Heart. There, Meshel meets Jerry Libbin, a man who tells a room that he "died" in March 2022 and came back through a miraculous heart transplant. What begins as a conversation about whether Jerry should reach out to his donor's family expands into a larger meditation on gratitude, legacy, and the invisible threads between strangers. The story grows even more profound as Meshel connects Jerry to Rabbi Jonathan Epstein, who shares the heartbreaking account of an Israeli family who donated a mother's heart after the October 7 massacre, and later to a retired Chrysler executive whose son's donated heart and eyes saved another young man's life. These stories elevate the book beyond business or self-help into something more lasting: a meditation on how one life continues inside another, and how relationships can carry grief, healing, and grace.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffrey W. Meshel is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and founder of The Strategic Forum, an invitation-only business community of accomplished executives and entrepreneurs. Over the course of a four-decade career spanning Wall Street, real estate development, and private investment, Jeff has fueled ventures, partnerships, and philanthropic initiatives across industries. Known for his instinctive ability to read people and cultivate meaningful alliances, he has long championed the principle that opportunity flows through relationships built on trust, discernment, and shared values. He is the author of One Phone Call Away: Secrets of a Master Networker, The Opportunity Magnet, Trust Is a Double-Edged Sword: Trust Me and Know Who You Know.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jeffrey W. Meshel
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798995983613
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
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