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 at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past. Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today's competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you. Why? 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 isn't about cover letters or resumes. Instead, you will learn the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, a small local business, or launching your own venture, you need to know how to: * Adapt your career plans as you change, the people around you change, and industries change. * Develop a competitive advantage to win the best jobs and opportunities. * Strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships. * Find the unique breakout opportunities that massively accelerate career growth. * Take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis. * Tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions. A revolutionary new guide to thriving in today's fractured world of work, the strategies in this book will help you survive and thrive and achieve your boldest professional ambitions. The Start-Up of You empowers you to become the CEO of your career and take control of your future.

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated): Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career (2022)

Hoffman, Reid

Casnocha, Ben

Reference

Crown Currency

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated): Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career

The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Random House Audio |

UNA ESTRATEGIA INNOVADORA PARA AVANZAR EN EL EXIGENTE ENTORNO PROFESIONAL DE HOY La seguridad en el empleo es cosa del pasado y la competencia en el mercado de trabajo se ha hecho feroz. Todos los sectores económicos están experimentando transformaciones radicales.Frente a esta situación, el cofundador y presidente de LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, junto con Ben Casnocha, plantean que la clave para impulsar tu carrera en este entorno altamente competitivo radica en gestionarla como si tú mismo fueras un negocio vivo, palpitante y en crecimiento.Partiendo de su experiencia en el lanzamiento de innumerables iniciativas empresariales en Silicon Valley, los autores recomiendan que actúes como un empresario que acaba de lanzar un nuevo negocio: invierte en ti mismo, desarrolla tus contactos, asume riesgos y saca provecho de la incertidumbre y la volatilidad. En estos principios radican las estrategias imprescindibles para avanzar profesionalmente. El mejor negocio eres tú te proporciona las herramientas para ponerte al mando de tu carrera y mantener el control sobre tu futuro.

El mejor negocio eres tú (Spanish Edition)

Vintage Espanol

Product Description 
What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network, or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset—and that mindset can be cultivated.\n“If you’re scaling a company—or if you just love a well-told story—this is a book to savor.”—Robert Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of a Lifetime\nBehind the scenes in Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) is a sought-after adviser to heads of companies and heads of state. On each episode of his podcast, 
Masters of Scale, he sits down with a guest from an all-star list of visionary founders and leaders, digging into the surprising strategies that power their company’s growth. In this book, he draws on their most riveting, revealing stories—as well as his own experience as a founder and investor—to distill the secrets behind the most extraordinary success stories of our times.\nHere, Hoffman teams up with 
 Masters of Scale’s executive producers to offer a rare window into the entrepreneurial mind, sharing hard-won wisdom from leaders of iconic companies (including Apple, Nike, Netflix, Spotify, Starbucks, Google, Instagram, and Microsoft) as well as the bold, disruptive startups (such as 23andMe, TaskRabbit, Black List, and Walker & Co.) that are solving the problems of the twenty-first century.\nThrough vivid storytelling and incisive analysis, 
Masters of Scale distills their collective insights into a set of counterintuitive principles that anyone can use. How do you find a winning idea and turn it into a scalable venture? What can you learn from a “squirmy no”? When should you stop listening to your customers? Which fires should you put out right away, and which should you let burn? And can you really make money while making the world a better place? (Answer: Yes. But you have to keep your profits and values aligned.)\nBased on more than a hundred interviews and including a wealth of new material never aired on the podcast, this unique insider’s guide will inspire you to reimagine how you do business today. 
 Review 
“[Hoffman] seizes on traits that might otherwise be missed . . . [and] earnestly contends that, through careful attention to leadership and culture, the propulsive drive to grow can be disentangled from the toxic behavior so often associated with explosive expansion. It feels like the triumph of hope over experience.” 
—The Wall Street Journal\n“Whether you’re at a startup or working to drive change within a large organization, the business principles in this book will help you deploy your strategy with creativity, integrity, and realism.” 
—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation\n“Think of this book as a mentorship in ten chapters, with stories and advice from people you might already admire, as well as people whose journeys are just starting. You'll come away with at least a couple of new mantras and a new understanding of the how and why of building your business.” 
—Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List \n“Reid Hoffman has a talent for getting right to the heart of a business case and turning it into an unforgettable lesson. If you’re scaling a company—or if you just love a well-told story—this is a book to savor.” 
—Bob Iger, executive chairman, The Walt Disney Company\n“[Reid Hoffman] shows how any company of any stripe can bake generosity and social good into its DNA, and how making a positive contribution to the world can be the driving force that helps your company scale.” 
—Daniel Lubetzky, executive chairman and founder of KIND and New York Times bestselling author of Do the KIND Thing\n“A book to take with you into battle as you build a company or a career. It’s full of enjoyable stories, but the killer feature is the sharp insights that Hoffman draws out—specific, memorable, and actionable mindsets.” 
—Reed Hastings, co-founder and co-CEO, Netflix\n“To lead with vision and hear

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

Finance

El enfoque revolucionario de Fred sobre liderazgo comienza con un impulso poco convencional: el miedo a la muerte. ¿Qué tienen en común la ansiedad con la creación de la eficiencia organizacional? ¡Mucho! Un libro que combina lo práctico con lo existencial, te ayudará a infundir significado y dignidad en tu vida y tu trabajo. Fred muestra un camino hacia el liderazgo trascendente al analizar ejemplos del mundo real de empresas sin dirección y experiencias de servicio al cliente que han resultado terriblemente mal, que abarcan desde la desastrosa administración de Marissa Meyer en Yahoo! al infame representante de servicio al cliente de Comcast que pensaba que estaba haciendo bien su trabajo al negarse obstinadamente a cancelar la cuenta de cable de un suscriptor. Este libro cambiará tu forma de pensar: tu trabajo no es tu trabajo, no es suficiente hacer tu mejor esfuerzo y triunfar. Aprenderás a descubrir tu propio significado y serás capaz de animar a otros a alcanzar un propósito noble. El enfoque de liderazgo de Fred es una mezcla de economía y teoría empresarial, en parte compuesto de comunicación y capacitación en resolución de conflictos, parte consejería familiar, parte meditación y consideración. ¿Qué se puede esperar de un graduado de Berkeley que realiza retiros de silencio que duran un mes? Fred ha enseñado y presentado su investigación en numerosas instituciones académicas, incluyendo Sloan School of Management de MIT, donde fue nombrado Profesor del año, y en la Universidad de Harvard.

La revolución del sentido: El poder del liderazgo transcendente (Spanish Edition)

Kofman, Fred

Business Culture

HarperCollins Espanol

The Alliance Lib/E: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Yeh, Chris

Management & Leadership

Blackstone Publishing

Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies. What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion –as quickly as possible. When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company’s life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more. Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

The New York Times Bestelling guide for managers and executives.
 Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee. The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or as free agents. Think of them instead as allies. As a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the future. And your employees want the company to help transform their careers for the long term. But this win-win scenario will happen only if both sides trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and mutual benefit. Sadly, trust in the business world is hovering at an all-time low. We can rebuild that lost trust with straight talk that recognizes the realities of the modern economy. So, paradoxically, the alliance begins with managers acknowledging that great employees might leave the company, and with employees being honest about their own career aspirations. By putting this new alliance at the heart of your talent management strategy, you’ll not only bring back trust, you’ll be able to recruit and retain the entrepreneurial individuals you need to adapt to a fast-changing world. These individuals, flexible, creative, and with a bias toward action, thrive when they’re on a specific tour of duty”when they have a mission that’s mutually beneficial to employee and company that can be completed in a realistic period of time. Coauthored by the founder of LinkedIn, this bold but practical guide for managers and executives will give you the tools you need to recruit, manage, and retain the kind of employees who will make your company thrive in today’s world of constant innovation and fast-paced change.

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Harvard Business Review Press

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.
If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.
Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to:
<ul>
<li>Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick</li>
<li>Know what matters in a great business plan</li>
<li>Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation</li>
<li>Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley</li>
<li>Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding</li>
<li>Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO</li>
</ul>
This collection of articles includes "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader," by Timothy Butler; "How to Write a Great Business Plan," by William A. Sahlman; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life," by Norman Winarsky; "In Search of the Next Big Thing," an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; "Six Myths About Venture Capitalists," by Diane Mulcahy; "Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors," by Hamdi Ulukaya; "Network Effects Aren’t Enough," by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; "Blitzscaling," an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship," by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and "The Founder's Dilemma," by Noam Wasserman.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (featuring Bonus Article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything” by Steve Blank)

Review, Harvard Business

Blank, Steve

Sahlman, William A.

Andreessen, Marc

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