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Rework
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.
Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're ...more
Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're ...more
Hardcover, 279 pages
Published
March 9th 2010
by Crown Business
(first published January 1st 2010)
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Rework puts into words the things we've suspected for a long time. Mainly, that we are at war, and the battle lines are being drawn every day. Traditional, secure, process-heavy businesses which exist for self-preservation are fighting for survival and profits against small, lightweight, flexible individuals working for the love of their craft. People conditioned to measure the quality of their work by the number of hours spent sitting in a chair are losing respect to people who work a handful ...more
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This is another book I can't put down. Nothing in this book is earth-shattering or amazing. It's the little things you have suspected to be true - but someone who makes more money than you tells you is not true. It's what you say to your friends over lunch. It's support for being feisty in work and in life. I'm highlighting a sentence in almost every chapter that I want to remember. Again - not because I don't know it - but because I don't want to forget it. And I don't want to fool myself that ...more
Rework is quick and easy to read, which speaks to the philosophy the book is shilling: get things done -- which coincidentally speaks to me.
Nothing in this book can be learned that can't be learned from the Signal vs. Noise blog from 37signals. That doesn't mean this book is unnecessary. On the contrary, it's handy to have a collection of business tips and anecdotes bound in one neat little volume.
This was my first business book and I think I got off pretty easy. There was a...more
Nothing in this book can be learned that can't be learned from the Signal vs. Noise blog from 37signals. That doesn't mean this book is unnecessary. On the contrary, it's handy to have a collection of business tips and anecdotes bound in one neat little volume.
This was my first business book and I think I got off pretty easy. There was a...more
A very quick and easy read. So few words that some might feel cheated. It does make a couple of very good point though: The Internet truly has changed the way we do business. The way large corporations work is anachronistic and the authors describe this in a fresh way.
I will write a blogpost about this book soon, exploring which lessons I already enbody, which lessons I personally would like to act on and which lessons I wish my employer would act on.
I will write a blogpost about this book soon, exploring which lessons I already enbody, which lessons I personally would like to act on and which lessons I wish my employer would act on.
A friend of mine gave me Rework
two weeks ago after a talk we had over my post on how finishing things helps you finish more, and how overwork starts creeping up on you and causes you to make mistakes (my friend was in one of those one-week deadlines, working 18 hours a day minimum and it was showing). The book is about how to do things in the modern internet-services economy. I think there are many lessons that can also be learned by other fields but not all of them are applicable (for exam...more
two weeks ago after a talk we had over my post on how finishing things helps you finish more, and how overwork starts creeping up on you and causes you to make mistakes (my friend was in one of those one-week deadlines, working 18 hours a day minimum and it was showing). The book is about how to do things in the modern internet-services economy. I think there are many lessons that can also be learned by other fields but not all of them are applicable (for exam...more
After being in a creative rut, I realized that I should read more. Plus there have been a lot of great recommendations from photographers alike on Twitter. After seeing the comments about Rework, I decided to purchase it and give it a go. And I’m glad I did. The guys of 37 Signals were dead on about quite a few important business functions. There’s so much powerful information about reworking and rethinking the way you approach your business. I dogeared quite of few of the pages because they wer...more
This is one of those books where I agree with the general message but don't necessarily like the delivery. Rework is a very slight read. It feels more like a series of blog posts than anything as formal as a novel. The tone is that of a manifesto, and evidence is basically anecdotal.
The overall argument is that we should redo how we do work (hence, "rework"); Fried et al make an argument for leaner, more flexible organizations, with few of the obvious structures of the ave...more
The overall argument is that we should redo how we do work (hence, "rework"); Fried et al make an argument for leaner, more flexible organizations, with few of the obvious structures of the ave...more
Having read their first book years ago and as a user of their products I looked forward to reading this book for quite sometime. Fresh out of my masters program it moved to the top of my reading list. I wanted to replace all that academic rhetoric with some boots on the ground advice from two people who have started a company I admire. Rework did just that.
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have taken a Nike approach to building their software company. They just did it! Forget ab...more
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have taken a Nike approach to building their software company. They just did it! Forget ab...more
Rework is a book about re-thinking old rules for running a business, written by the founders of the great software company 37signals.
37signals' Jason Fried has been increasingly outspoken about how to run businesses as his own has become successful. A few of the tenets covered in this book—send your employees home at five, meetings are toxic, don't hire rock-stars—have become minor-controversies in the design and development world. In my view, 37signals has raised the quality-level of the debate...more
37signals' Jason Fried has been increasingly outspoken about how to run businesses as his own has become successful. A few of the tenets covered in this book—send your employees home at five, meetings are toxic, don't hire rock-stars—have become minor-controversies in the design and development world. In my view, 37signals has raised the quality-level of the debate...more
loved it! just read it. this is a great book for anyone running a business or managing a team, but in reality this book is a motivational resource for anyone that works. i want to do my work better/smarter after reading it. the authors just make sense and breakdown complicated business stuff into plain english that you can really leverage in your work (even if you don't run a small business). they say some things you have been thinking but seem contrary to the 'right way' to run a successfu...more
Este livro é uma lufada de ar fresco.
Eu nem sequer tinha conhecimento do background dos autores quando comecei a tomar contacto com as abordagens que defendem no livro, mas eles possuem bastante experiência e moral para falar; a empresa que dirigem, fundada por um dos autores, a 37signals, é um enorme caso de sucesso no mundo da tecnologia web.
Além de particularmente bem escrito (lê-se de uma assentada), as polémicas afirmações que vão fazendo são sempre suportadas com excele...more
Eu nem sequer tinha conhecimento do background dos autores quando comecei a tomar contacto com as abordagens que defendem no livro, mas eles possuem bastante experiência e moral para falar; a empresa que dirigem, fundada por um dos autores, a 37signals, é um enorme caso de sucesso no mundo da tecnologia web.
Além de particularmente bem escrito (lê-se de uma assentada), as polémicas afirmações que vão fazendo são sempre suportadas com excele...more
This is a great book for anyone who either owns, or is contemplating starting, a business. The authors founded 37Signals, a Chicago-based software development firm that created the website development software Ruby On Rails and the popular Highrise contact management program -- among others. The book expresses their successful business development philosophy which distills down to: (1) create a product/service that you would like to use (because it solves a problem you have experienced) (2) star...more
Good standard small business advice.
Notes:
Prioritize visually.
Make tiny decisions.
Do less. One downing not one updoing.
Don't be a whore to our customers.
build anaudeience
Hold meetings at site of problem, not in meeting room. Invite as few as possible.
Divide problems and projects into pieces small enough to easily estimate time and effort required.
Make short lists to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
Prioritize visually, w...more
Notes:
Prioritize visually.
Make tiny decisions.
Do less. One downing not one updoing.
Don't be a whore to our customers.
build anaudeience
Hold meetings at site of problem, not in meeting room. Invite as few as possible.
Divide problems and projects into pieces small enough to easily estimate time and effort required.
Make short lists to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
Prioritize visually, w...more
Rework is a book very much of its moment as those preferring Web 2.0-style collaborations and those who feel territorial about everything they produce attempt to find common ground. The writers suggest that we avoid the complexities and turf wars which so often hold many of us back from achievements we might otherwise produce if we were not trying to do too much, trying to recreate what others are doing rather than pursuing our own vision on behalf of those we serve, and allowing ourselves to "...more
Some things here are scalable, applicable elsewhere, but a lot presupposes a small company. Quick read.
Be a curator. It's the stuff you leave out that matters. Look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Stick to what's truly essential.
Years of irrelevance (experience). It makes sense to go after candidates with 6 mos to 1 year of experience. It takes that long to internalize the idioms, learn how things work, understand the relevant tools, etc. But after that, the...more
Be a curator. It's the stuff you leave out that matters. Look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Stick to what's truly essential.
Years of irrelevance (experience). It makes sense to go after candidates with 6 mos to 1 year of experience. It takes that long to internalize the idioms, learn how things work, understand the relevant tools, etc. But after that, the...more
I don't know why, but most organizational studies books are either 1) weird and stuffy, or 2) kind of like Epcot Center, trying a little too hard, maybe, but not horrible. Rework is a better organizational studies book than most. The authors tantalize the reader toward jumping on their bandwagon, and, for the most part, their bandwagon is headed in the right direction.
The two guys responsible for Rework run their own Chicago software company and much of their advice probably came...more
The two guys responsible for Rework run their own Chicago software company and much of their advice probably came...more
Отключили у меня свет на неделе, и так как с электричеством была утеряна связь с внешним миром, решил я почитать. Практически за один присест осилил книгу Rework, вторая книга от основателей проекта http://37signals.com/ удалась на славу. Она весьма небольшая по объему.
Если первую книгу я читал в электронном виде, то эту я настоятельно рекомендую купить на бумажном носителе. Дороговато в наших Палестинах, но оно того стоит. Книга сойдет за офигенский подарок коллеге. Вообще она так сд...more
Если первую книгу я читал в электронном виде, то эту я настоятельно рекомендую купить на бумажном носителе. Дороговато в наших Палестинах, но оно того стоит. Книга сойдет за офигенский подарок коллеге. Вообще она так сд...more
Сегодня прочитал кингу Rework. При прочтении возникло двойственное чувство. Конечно, во время прочтения, со многими тезисами я согласился, книга несет в себе много полезной информации о том, как нужно вести дела, как лучше себя мотивировать, организовать. Но во время всего прочтения не отпускало ощущение какого-то "зомбирования" (подобное чувство возникало в свое время при прочтении Аллена Карра "Легкий Способ Бросить Курить"). На самом деле и манера повествования чем-то похо...more
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Over all this book is a bunch of simple proverbs relating exactly the problems I will face my entire career as long as I stay in the field I'm in. I gave it 3 stars cause I expect to savor deeper phrases. But I still like his matter-of-fact ways. Here are a few take aways I have kept:
Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you’re willing to fight for. And then you nee...more
Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you’re willing to fight for. And then you nee...more
This book by the founders of 37Signals is packed with advice about productivity, competition, marketing, and maintaining a work/life balance. It's short and easily digestible; each chapter starts with an eye-catching illustration followed by just 1 or 2 concise pages. It's mostly aimed at startups, but the tips apply to people in any size business.
The authors are huge proponents of simplicity. They suggest keeping everything as simple as possible: products, services, business adminis...more
The authors are huge proponents of simplicity. They suggest keeping everything as simple as possible: products, services, business adminis...more
The feeling I got when I read the praise of the book in the first few pages was "This book is over-praised". When I finished it, I still have the same feeling.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that if you're gonna challenge the foundations of doing business, you gotta back it up with something more that "That's how we did it, and it worked for us".
The book makes a great case against all the elements of doing business (planning, raising capital, meeting, communication,...more
Maybe it's just me, but I think that if you're gonna challenge the foundations of doing business, you gotta back it up with something more that "That's how we did it, and it worked for us".
The book makes a great case against all the elements of doing business (planning, raising capital, meeting, communication,...more
If you are familiar with the work philosophy espoused by 37signals through their blog, Signal vs Noise, or their previous book, Getting Real, you may be slightly underwhelmed by Rework. The book isn't an exploration of new ground; rather it represents a distillation of their ethos for the mainstream. However, familiarly with the material cannot undermine it's importance. The ideas expressed in the book are significant, and they need to be read.
I was surprised though, and perhaps a litt...more
I was surprised though, and perhaps a litt...more
I liked reading the book as it confirmed what I already through was the case when it came to operating some sort of group setting. I disliked reading the book as it confirmed what I already thought was the case when it came to operating some sort of group setting.
At the end of the day, this book succumbed to the perennial slayer of all management books, that of confusing anecdote for data. I recognize the difficulty of things like "controlling for having a forced culture"...more
At the end of the day, this book succumbed to the perennial slayer of all management books, that of confusing anecdote for data. I recognize the difficulty of things like "controlling for having a forced culture"...more
I've been a fan of 37signals for a long time, but this book disappointed. I mean, sure, most of the chapters reiterated truisms that are sure to resonate with anyone who's had the opportunity to work on low and high performing teams. But somewhere near the 3/4ths point, you got the sense that it was a kind of retrospective, survivorship-biased revisionist history of what landed 37s where it is today.
In other words, if you are able to turn your consulting business into a killer niche ...more
In other words, if you are able to turn your consulting business into a killer niche ...more
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Rework has a lot of great ideas, and is easy to read. It's said that it is bringing these ideas to a new audience, and I think that's great if it is the case.
The previous book "Getting Real" was more a bit more web focused, but also more practical. This book takes away some concrete stuff and adds new things that are sometimes good, sometimes fluff. The individual essays aren't linked, even where a linked discussion would help clarify or reinforce subtle p...more
Rework has a lot of great ideas, and is easy to read. It's said that it is bringing these ideas to a new audience, and I think that's great if it is the case.
The previous book "Getting Real" was more a bit more web focused, but also more practical. This book takes away some concrete stuff and adds new things that are sometimes good, sometimes fluff. The individual essays aren't linked, even where a linked discussion would help clarify or reinforce subtle p...more
I need to start with a disclaimer; I’m a 37signals fanatic. I spend at least a few hours each day using Basecamp and I use a family level Backpack account for personal use. Both save me time and help keep me organized at work and home. The products that 37signals turns out are simple, clean and get the job done.
REWORK is just like any other 37signals product. It’s not a long book, but the authors make their points clearly and succinctly by cutting out any unnecessary filler. Being in...more
REWORK is just like any other 37signals product. It’s not a long book, but the authors make their points clearly and succinctly by cutting out any unnecessary filler. Being in...more
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Lately, I've been trying to learn more about how technology is changing the way people can and do work. This study began with Thomas Friedman's _The_World_Is_Flat_ and exploration into social networking, some thoughts on productivity from Merlin Mann and David Allen, and has pretty much spiraled out of control since then. My most recent read was Seth Godin's _Linchpin_ in which he celebrate's 37signals's modern and creative way of running a business and producing 'art'. And that's how I disco...more
Rework is the latest book from 37signals, the company behind web apps like Basecamp and Highrise. Much like their earlier book, <cite>Getting Real</cite>, and their popular blog Signal vs Noise, the book consists of very short chapters with oft-provocative statements (like, if you're pulling all-nighters a lot it doesn't mean you're hardcore, it means you've managed your time badly) backed up with some examples from their own or others' businesses. It was a quick, easy read but I'm s...more
In the last few months I’ve learned that spending hours on the internet looking for ways to “be better” is bullshit. Reading countless blogs. Staying on top of every tweet. And never missing a single word uttered. All bullshit.
I’ve been lucky in finding a few great people on the web who have said this is bullshit. And I’ve been lucky enough to sit back and look at what I’ve been doing and tell myself it’s all bullshit. I have everything I need to make something TODAY.
Unless, ...more
I’ve been lucky in finding a few great people on the web who have said this is bullshit. And I’ve been lucky enough to sit back and look at what I’ve been doing and tell myself it’s all bullshit. I have everything I need to make something TODAY.
Unless, ...more
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