Genre: Nonfiction
Length: 288 pages
First Published: 2010
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Publisher’s Description
Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you’re looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.
Read it and you’ll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don’t need outside investors, and why you’re better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don’t need to be a workaholic. You don’t need to staff up. You don’t need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don’t even need an office. Those are all just excuses.
What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You’ll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.
With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of “downsizing,” and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.
Quotes from Rework
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way.
If you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that’s already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That’s no way to live.
Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.
About Jason Fried
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals and co-founder of Basecamp and the co-author, with David Heinemeier Hansson, of Getting Real, Remote, It Doesn’t Have to Get Crazy at Work, and Rework.
About David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the open-source web framework Ruby on Rails, the cofounder and CTO of Basecamp, and a racecar driver. He is the co-author, with Jason Fried, of Getting Real, Remote, It Doesn’t Have to Get Crazy at Work, and Rework. Visit the author’s website →
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