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The start-up of you adapt to the future, invest in yourself, and transform your career

A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs. The career escalator is jammed. Unemployment is sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. Traditional job securi...

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Main Author: Hoffman, Reid
Other Authors: Casnocha, Ben
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Business, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Career changes.
Career development.
Business networks.
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Summary:A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs. The career escalator is jammed. Unemployment is sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. Traditional job security is a thing of the past. Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you. Start-ups--and the entrepreneurs who run them--are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage. These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today. This book will teach you the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career.
Physical Description:xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780307888907 (hc : alk. paper)
0307888908 (hc : alk. paper)
9780307888914 (tr : alk. paper)
0307888916 (tr : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Reid Hoffman received a bachelor's degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University and a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University. He served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was a founding board member. He co-founded LinkedIn in 2003 and is a partner at Greylock. He has co-written several books including The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career with Ben Casnocha and The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh.

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