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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 2010)
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"Rework" by Jason Fried это книга про то, как начать и продолжить маленький (но эффективный) бизнес.
Я не пользуюсь продуктами 37signal и книги Getting Real мне хватило, чтобы понять их точку зрения, но на GR все как-то активно читают/читали Rework, вот и я решил почитать)))
К этому времени Rework оценилиуже 49 френдов (очень высокая средняя оценка 4.52), хотя довольно прохладную рецензию написали только пятеро: Alex Suslin, Игорь Емельянов, Denis Evsyukov, Valia, Alex Ott, Viktor Zakharchenko.
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Я не пользуюсь продуктами 37signal и книги Getting Real мне хватило, чтобы понять их точку зрения, но на GR все как-то активно читают/читали Rework, вот и я решил почитать)))
К этому времени Rework оценили
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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 minimum of douchery...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 minimum of douchery...more
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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.
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чого я не чекав від цієї книги - так це довжелезного конспекту з-під моїх нетерплячих рук і почуття вдячності, що рідко буває з in your face книгами, які вчать жити. по-американськи коротко, безапеляційно, руба.
тут все трохи по-іншому. тебе не вчать - з тобою діляться. тебе не переконують - до тебе доносять. тебе не лишають з готовим рецептом, набором порад чи, навпаки, спантеличенням - тобі радше пропонують поглянути на дорожню карту, яка у випадку авторів спрацювала "всупереч логіці". зрештою...more
тут все трохи по-іншому. тебе не вчать - з тобою діляться. тебе не переконують - до тебе доносять. тебе не лишають з готовим рецептом, набором порад чи, навпаки, спантеличенням - тобі радше пропонують поглянути на дорожню карту, яка у випадку авторів спрацювала "всупереч логіці". зрештою...more
This book is a great collection of ideas that will help you to succeed in business. Although presented ideas are based on common sense, some of them strongly disagree with current usual business practices. Still problem is with current business practices and not with presented ideas.
Reading "Rework" can be great motivator for starting work smarter (rather than harder), seeking long-term sustainable business (rather than achieving better financial results for the current quarter) and really servi...more
Reading "Rework" can be great motivator for starting work smarter (rather than harder), seeking long-term sustainable business (rather than achieving better financial results for the current quarter) and really servi...more
I appreciate anyone who's clever enough to suggest we entirely rethink how we conceive of work/business. Structurally, however, this book suffers from the same issues I've seen in a lot of blog-to-book deals: It reads like the authors basically cobbled together a bunch of blog posts and decided, voila! that makes a book.
That does NOT make a book.
The structure of a book, whether nonfiction or fiction, is DIFFERENT than a blog. The short, vaguely promising stuff you can stick in a blog post works...more
That does NOT make a book.
The structure of a book, whether nonfiction or fiction, is DIFFERENT than a blog. The short, vaguely promising stuff you can stick in a blog post works...more
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I think this is a great book to help a start-up-size company to be more creative, efficient and productive. I like the positive attitude towards product and services throughout the book - keep products simple and be speedy and genuine in business. A big portion of the book are pages of illustrations, some of them are really cute ~ They match the book style really well.
My favorite chapters and quotes from REWORK (following the order in the book):
* Make a dent in the universe
* Start making somet...more
My favorite chapters and quotes from REWORK (following the order in the book):
* Make a dent in the universe
* Start making somet...more
I'm not really one for business books, but I was really drawn to this one by some of the claims on the back.
The author's aren't really claiming anything revolutionary, but in the fine tradition of David Allen, Fred Brooks, and Strunk/White it succinctly lists principles to strive for and the rationale behind them. It also does it in a very straightforward (and slightly abrasive) manner.
I don't think the book is a bible, and I suspect that a successful company would find that a dogmatic adherence...more
The author's aren't really claiming anything revolutionary, but in the fine tradition of David Allen, Fred Brooks, and Strunk/White it succinctly lists principles to strive for and the rationale behind them. It also does it in a very straightforward (and slightly abrasive) manner.
I don't think the book is a bible, and I suspect that a successful company would find that a dogmatic adherence...more
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 example,...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 example,...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 average US company (meeti...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 average US company (meeti...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 about strate...more
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have taken a Nike approach to building their software company. They just did it! Forget about strate...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 successful bus...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 excelentes exemplos reais...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 excelentes exemplos reais...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, with next task at top of list.
Make attainable goals.
Use tiny decisions to work th...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, with next task at top of list.
Make attainable goals.
Use tiny decisions to work th...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 "o...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 curve flattens out....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 curve flattens out....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 to fruition ac...more
The two guys responsible for Rework run their own Chicago software company and much of their advice probably came to fruition ac...more
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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 сделана, что...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 сделана, что...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 похожа - так же быстро и...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 need to show the w...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 need to show the w...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, workplace, organizing, etc.)...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, workplace, organizing, etc.)...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 little disappo...more
I was surprised though, and perhaps a little disappo...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" but otherwise the text...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" but otherwise the text...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 app, then th...more
In other words, if you are able to turn your consulting business into a killer niche app, then th...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 points. After the first quarter, th...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 points. After the first quarter, th...more
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Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals. Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics. Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.
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