18min
Recounting the story of its authors, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework tells us how we can build a business without making great leaps, without becoming too big and by optimising all our processes to become quick and simple, while earning us a handsome profit. This book provides us with a series of useful suggestions to manage our company more efficiently.
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Analysis and key concepts
01.
The size of a company
02.
The startup guide
03.
Focus on your priorities going forward
04.
Improve productivity through simplicity
05.
Be inspired, but don’t copy!
06.
The power of NO
07.
How to promote yourself when nobody knows who you are….and afterwards when they do
08.
Build a winning team
09.
Quotes
10.
Take-home message
We are a small company by choice; at the moment there are 16 of us. We develop software to help small companies and groups optimise their work in the easiest possible way. We wanted to stay small, lean and frugal, even though our company is very lucrative: we turn over several million dollars a year. In this book we want to explain to you how to run a profitable business without growing too fast, in an efficient and simple way.
You'll have 7 days free, and if you're not satisfied after 30 days, you can get your money back.
Many useful tips to:
The author
Jason Fried is the co-founder and the CEO of 37 signals, which then became Basecamp. Jason has been asked to speak all over the world about entrepreneurship, design, management and software. He co-wrote all the 37signals books.
David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer. He is the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and of Wiki Instiki. He is a partner of the software development company Basecamp. He was co-author of Agile Web Development with Rails with Dave Thomas.
Edition
Publishing house:
Random House
Year:
2010
Pages:
288
ISBN:
978-0091929787