An exclusive interview between New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and Reid and Ben over at Amazon.com is re-printed below. Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure your prospective employer is thinking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day–more than a worker in…
That’s the title of a guest post by Reid published yesterday on TechCrunch. He opens by noting the contradictory advice entrepreneurs receive, which parallels the career advice we all receive: An entrepreneur receives lots of contradictory advice from really smart, experienced people. For example, you’ve probably been told to be both persistent and flexible; to have a…
Fortune magazine has an excerpt from The Start-Up of You online and in the magazine. There’s also a brief introduction of Reid by Jessi Hempel. The excerpt is an abbreviated and condensed version of Chapter 4: “It Takes a Network.” We’ve included some excerpts of the excerpt below, but we encourage you to read the full article at…
Centuries of immigrants risked everything to come to America with the belief that if they worked hard, they would enjoy a better life than their parents had. Since the country’s birth, each generation of Americans has generally made more money, been better educated, and enjoyed a higher standard of living than the generation that came before…
Fast Company’s cover piece this month, Generation Flux, is perfect background for why The Start-Up of You matters now. The subtitle of the article: “The future of business is pure chaos. Here’s how you can survive–and perhaps even thrive.” Robert Safian profiles several professionals who are building unique careers by thinking and acting entrepreneurially. In…
The subtitle of the book is “Adapt to the Future, Invest In Yourself, and Transform Your Career.” And virtually every day, there’s a headline that reminds us why “adapting to the future” is so important. Whether it’s companies that fail to keep up with technological change, or workers who find themselves with antiquated (or offshorable)…
I was struck by David Hahn’s quote in this article that LinkedIn “welcomes anyone who thinks in terms of a career instead of a job.” There is quite a difference between the two, isn’t there? Finding a job is a one-time thing. You do it, then you’re done. When people look for a job, they…
We were thrilled to see Publishers Weekly, a respected trade journal in the publishing industry, write this early review of the book: LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Hoffman and entrepreneur Casnocha (My Start-Up Life) show how to adapt to the challenges of professional life and achieve career goals by behaving like an entrepreneur in this innovative approach…
Welcome to the Start-Up of You blog. In the weeks and months ahead, we’ll be posting about the career strategies in the book, news about events and speaking, reviews, information about translations, and much more. Over at the LinkedIn group, we’ll be publishing additional links and hosting reader discussions. Reid and I and all of…
In July, Tom Friedman, a columnist at the New York Times and author of the best-selling book The World Is Flat, wrote a column about The Start-Up of You in the context of the then released unemployment numbers. A couple excerpts: …while many [employers] are hiring, they are increasingly picky. They are all looking for the…