The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself
10 best books like The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself (Chris Guillebeau): The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life, Going Long: Training for Ironman-Distance Triathlons, Legal Guide for Starting and Running a Small Business, Happiness Is a Choice, Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change, Good Things for Organizing, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, Ten Things I Wish I'd Known--Before I Went Out Into the Real World, Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems
The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success
| Author | Jennifer Lee |
| ISBN | 1577319443 |
Turn Passionate Ideas into Profitable Enterprises
Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial leap -- and how to do it successfully....
| Author | Robert Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1402728425 |
Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, "A Trip to the Beach," sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, "Live What You Love" is the Blanchard's warm,...
| Author | Joe Friel |
| ISBN | 1931382247 |
This book guides weekend triathletes in getting the most out of their training time and helps serious triathletes get maximum physical and mental benefit from training. Chapters cover the basics of training and fitness; training specifics for swim, bike, and marathon; mental strategies; and more....
Practical Legal Guide for Business
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I was impressed by the content, organization and practicality of this reference book. This volume...
| Author | Barry Neil Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0449907996 |
Take What Works, and Leave the Rest Behind
"Happiness Is A Choice" was recommended to me by someone I highly respect, a very happy and successful professional. My reading this book paid off with immediate dividends when application of a passage at the beginning helped me end a tiff I was having...
Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change
| Author | Seth Godin |
| ISBN | 0743233387 |
You can't embrace change any faster...can't make time for the synergy training workshop...can't deal with one more change management seminar. So stop changing. Evolve.
Evolution can be unleashed in your organization, effortlessly and gradually changing everything in its path. By teaching...
Good Things for Organizing
| Author | Martha Stewart |
| ISBN | 0609805940 |
Who wouldn't like their living space to be more organized? Tapping into the popularity of the "Good Things" column in Martha Stewart Living, Good Things for Organizing provides practical, efficient, and pretty solutions for organizing just about everything, from spools of thread and the silverware...
The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change
| Author | Beth Kanter |
| ISBN | 0470547979 |
The Networked Nonprofit Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled by social technologies, where connections are leveraged to increase impact in effective ways...
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known--Before I Went Out Into the Real World
| Author | Maria Shriver |
| ISBN | 0446526126 |
“I wrote this book so that you might be spared. Not from having to learn the lessons I had to learn. No one can spare you that, because learning is experiential, and you have to do it yourself. As a wise person once told me: If I could spare you the pain you’re experiencing, I wouldn’t–because I wouldn’t...
Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems
| Author | Michael Strong |
| ISBN | 0470450037 |
Praise for Be the Solution "In the past, many believed you either went into 'public service' to do good, or you 'went into business' to make money. Few realized that the long-term success of business depends on serving people, not making money. Few realized that perhaps the best way to serve the public...
Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
| Author | Russell Simmons |
| ISBN | 1592405878 |
The visionary entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Do You! delivers a powerful guide to true abundance. Russell Simmons knows firsthand that wealth is rooted in much more than the stock market. True wealth has more to do with what's in your heart than what's in your wallet. Using this...
Starting an Online Business for Dummies
| Author | Greg Holden |
| ISBN | 0470107391 |
You've heard stories about people making their fortune creating Web sites and selling merchandise on the Internet. You've been eager to jump right in and take a shot at striking it rich, but you're not quite sure how to get started--or if you're business-minded and tech-savvy enough to succeed. Starting...
Technical Editing (The Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)
| Author | Carolyn D. Rude |
| ISBN | 0205786715 |
This market-leading text, which reflects recent changes in technology, workplace practices, and the global marketplace, progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. The addition of Angela Eaton of Texas Tech University brings...
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth: The 8 Secrets of How 5,000 Ordinary Americans Became Successful Investors--and How You Can Too
| Author | Ric Edelman |
| ISBN | 0062736868 |
How did a secretary, a firefighter, a retired naval officer, a housewife, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and a pharmacist become wealthy? Bestselling author Ric Edelman has studied the wealth-making habits of these 5,000 other ordinary Americans and reveals his findings in this extraordinary...
Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win
| Author | Michael Useem |
| ISBN | 1400047005 |
Today's best leaders know how to lead up, a necessary strategy when a supervisor is micromanaging rather than macrothinking, when a division president offers clear directives but can't see the future, or when investors demand instant gain but need long-term growth. Through vivid, compelling stories,...
The Designer's Guide To Marketing And Pricing: How To Win Clients And What To Charge Them
| Author | Ilise Benun |
| ISBN | 1600610080 |
Do what you love and make money!
The Designer's Guide to Marketing and Pricing will answer all the common questions asked by designers trying to stay afloat in their creative business - and also successful designers who want to put a little more thought into their operations. Whether you're...
The New Positioning: The Latest on the World's #1 Business Strategy
| Author | Jack Trout |
| ISBN | 0070653283 |
Many of the "rules of thumb" presented in The New Positioning have become standard marketing practices. An obvious weakness of the book is that there is little coverage concerning segmenting and targeting strategies, which are exercises an organization must go through before considering any positioning...
Managing in the Next Society
| Author | Peter F. Drucker |
| ISBN | 0312320116 |
Following in the successful vein of Managing for the Future (1992) and Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required...
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
| Author | Huffington Post |
| ISBN | 1439105006 |
The editors of The Huffington Post -- the most linked-to blog on the web -- offer an A-Z guide to all things blog, with information for everyone from the tech-challenged newbie looking to get a handle on this new way of communicating to the experienced blogger looking to break through the clutter of the...
The Introvert's Guide to Success in Business and Leadership
Being an introvert is truly an advantage in business and leadership if you know how to leverage it!
Having used her introversion to her advantage, the author went from new college graduate to holding responsibility for a $750 million business in just 10 short years. This eBook tells you how...
| Author | Charles Fort |
| ISBN | 1596050284 |
In Lo! Charles Fort writes about the kind of things—teleportation, spontaneous combustion, the “hive mind”—that have more recently been employed as themes in the Fox television series
Fringe
. To say Fort writes about “freak occurrences” seems like a misnomer; here he has collected...
Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
| Author | Daniel H. Pink |
| ISBN | 0446678791 |
Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives. Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself.
It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its...
The Reputation Economy: How to Become Rich in a World Where Your Digital Footprint Is as Valuable as the Cash in Your Wallet
| Author | Michael Fertik |
| ISBN | 0385347596 |
Another read for work.
Wikipedia calls Fertik a "privacy advocate" -- which I suppose confirms how bad Wikipedia can be, or how good Fertik is at managing his own reputation. If this book is anything to go by Fertik is as much a privacy advocate as a campus security chief telling girls not to drink...
Be Happy: A Little Book to Help You Live a Happy Life
| Author | Monica Sheehan |
| ISBN | 0762429623 |
A meaningful gift for grads, new parents, newlyweds, or anyone starting down a new road in life, this inspirational book of charming cartoons is full of reminders to "be happy!"
Illustrator Monica Sheehan has collected some of her most beloved cartoons from Real Simple magazine in a truly...
