Rework

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307463746
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/09/2010
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	63,353
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jason Fried is the cofounder and president of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), a privately held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. With David Heinemeier Hansson, Fried is the coauthor of Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application; Remote: Office Not Required; and the New York Times bestseller Rework.

David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), a privately held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. With Jason Fried, Hansson is the coauthor of Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application; Remote: Office Not Required; and the New York Times bestseller Rework.

Read an Excerpt

They say you can’t possibly compete with the big boys without a hefty marketing and advertising budget. They say you can’t succeed by building products that do less than your competition’s. They say you can’t make it all up as you go. But that’s exactly what we’ve done.
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Editorial Reviews

"Jason Fried and David Hansson follow their own advice in Rework, laying bare the surprising philosophies at the core of 37signals' success and inspiring us to put them into practice.  There's no jargon or filler here just hundreds of brilliantly simple rules for success.  Part entrepreneurial handbook for the twenty-first century, part manifesto for anyone wondering how work really works in the modern age, REWORK is required reading for anyone tired of business platitudes."
—Chris Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Long Tail and Free
 
"House-husband, housewife, Fortune 500 CEO, cab driver, restaurateur, venture capitalist — this is 'the book for you,' a book of true wisdom, business wisdom, life wisdom. The clarity, even genius, of this book actually brought me to near-tears on several occasions. Just bloody brilliant, that's what!"
—Tom Peters, New York Times bestselling author of In Search of Excellence, Thriving On Chaos and Leadership
 
"If given a choice between investing in someone who has read Rework or has an MBA, I'm investing in Rework every time.  This is a must read for every entrepreneur."
—Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and Broadcast.com and owner of the Dallas Mavericks
 
"Inspirational... Rework is a minimalist manifesto that's profoundly practical. In a world where we all keep getting asked to do more with less, the authors show us how to do less and create more."
—Scott Rosenberg, Co-Founder of Salon.com and author of Dreaming In Code and Say Everything

"The brilliance of Rework is that it inspires you to rethink everything you thought you knew about strategy, customers, and getting things done. Read this provocative and instructive book—and then get busy reimagining what it means to lead, compete, and succeed."
—William C. Taylor, Founding Editor of Fast Company and coauthor of Mavericks At Work 

"...a Webby manifesto for post-recession success."
—Newsweek

From the Publisher

The founders of a cutting-edge software company show why traditional advice for start-up companies is mostly wrong. Rather than becoming bogged down by rigid operational models or marketing protocols, they urge executives to stay flexible in the way they organize work, internal communication, and interactions with the outside world. They say businesses are more effective when their people work naturally and intuitively, rather than blindly following the practices most MBAs recommend. The focus is on commonsense principles like staying intellectually nimble and making a 100 percent emotional commitment to a worthwhile product. With his natural enthusiasm and broad range of phrasing tools, narrator Mike Chamberlain adds tremendous appeal to this compact lesson on “keeping it simple.” His excellent work magnifies the significance of the book’s message. T.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2010 - AudioFile