The Start-Up Of You: Adapt To The Future, Invest In Yourself, And Transform Your Career (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Though not a book I would normally pick up on my own, UCLA Anderson School of Management recommended this book to their incoming full-time MBA students this year, and it is easy to see why. Casnocha and Hoffman highlight traits and mindsets necessary for career advancement in today's global marketplace and provide interesting anecdotes exemplifying how those traits and mindsets can play out. Although much of what they said seemed common sense to me, that does not mean I always find it easy to do. As I switch careers from education to business, this book provides specific suggestions on how to emphasize these traits and mindsets in myself. The premise of the book is that you should manage your professional career like you would manage a startup. The idea was intriguing enough that I had high hopes. It does contain interesting stories of startups and does a good job extrapolating startup principles into career advice. Nonetheless, I haven't, throughout the whole book, stopped and thought this is a powerful/novel idea, or asked myself why haven't I ever thought of this before. It is safe to say that I'm now very self-conscious about my linkedin profile :-)I would recommend it to fresh out of college readers. They would probably get better ROI than I did.
What do You think about The Start-Up Of You: Adapt To The Future, Invest In Yourself, And Transform Your Career (2000)?
Keren. Terutama yang masih galau masalah bagaimana seharusnya meniti karir.
—hf20ong
As far as career advice books go I liked this one.
—Alsarah
Life changing book! Time to move this into action.
—jojo
