Book excerpt: Connecting Forward focuses on networking into a new environment. The book will improve and fine-tune your networking techniques, helping you to advance your career or develop your business when working in a new environment – whether that is a new role, company, industry or country. Author, Jordi Robert-Ribes, also considers the networking techniques that any modern business environment requires.The book is organised around 33 stand-alone tips, which makes it very easy to use. In fact, the core principle of the book is that all the tips given can be applied immediately. Connecting Forward also contains real case studies of people who have “already made it” which provide you with extra perspective.Connecting Forward also has associated online tools and additional information available to readers at www.connectingforward.com