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The Startup of You (Revised and Updated)

Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career

by Reid Hoffman
Ben Casnocha
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The groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller that taught a generation how to transform their careers—now in a revised and updated edition
 
“A profound book about self-determination and self-realization.”—Senator Cory Booker
 
“The Startup of You is crammed with insights and strategies to help each of us create the work life we want.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
In this invaluable book, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a startup business: a living, breathing, growing startup of you.
Why? Startups—and the entrepreneurs who run them—are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.
These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.

This book isn’t about cover letters or résumés. Instead, you will learn the best practices of the most successful startups and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, stitch together multiple gigs in a portfolio career, or are launching your own venture, you need to know how to
• adapt your career plans as pandemics rage and technologies upend industries
• develop a competitive advantage so that you stand out from others at work
• strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships
• engineer serendipity that produces life-changing career opportunities
• take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis
• tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions
 
The career landscape has changed dramatically in the decade since Hoffman and Casnocha first published this guide. In an urgent update to the frameworks that have helped hundreds of thousands of people transform their careers, this new edition of The Startup of You will teach you how to achieve your boldest professional ambitions.

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    February 14, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9780307888921

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      • ISBN: 9780307888921
      • File size: 6432 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 19, 2011
      LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Hoffman and entrepreneur Casnocha (My Start-Up Life) show how to adapt to the challenges of professional life and achieve career goals by behaving like an entrepreneur in this innovative approach to career management. Recognizing the similarities between business strategies employed by successful startups and career strategies used by top individuals, Hoffman began to ponder individuals as startup ventures and realized the importance of utilizing an entrepreneurial mindset to forge new careers. Given the new economic landscape, where young talent is stuck at the bottom of the employment ladder, retirement-age employees are staying on the job, and stalemated middle-aged workers are stalled in limbo, workers at all levels need to develop strategies to gain opportunities, improve their competitive edge, and expand their networks—in other words, obtain a startup mindset and skills. To do so, the authors show how to combine assets, aspirations, and market realities and adapt as needed, emphasizing the necessity of building real, lasting relationships and establishing a powerful professional network. With plenty of valuable guidance relevant to any career stage, this book will help readers not only survive professionally in times of uncertainty but stand out from the pack and flourish. Agent: Lisa DiMona, Lark Productions.

    • Library Journal

      March 15, 2012

      Entrepreneur and investor Hoffman (cofounder & chairman, LinkedIn) and entrepreneur and author Casnocha (My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley) aim to help readers deal with the changing career landscape by explaining competition and addressing how to gain an edge over one's professional rivals. Hoffman and Casnocha teach readers what they call "ABZ planning," which is similar to the model of "creAction" developed in Leonard Schlesinger's Just Start (mentioned below). This book goes further, however, emphasizing the importance of building relationships and, eventually, a powerful network from which one can gain insight, find better opportunities, and make wiser career decisions. The authors discuss how to maintain relationships with allies, assess the value of weaker connections, act as a bridge between contacts, and take intelligent risks. Numerous case studies featuring notable figures like best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz exemplify the many ways career growth and success can take place. VERDICT An energetic guide to high-intensity networking. Recommended for readers looking to expand their field of relationships.

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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