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Shake The World: It's Not About Finding A Job, It's About Creating A Life (2011)

by James Marshall Reilly(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

159184455X (ISBN13: 9781591844556)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Portfolio Hardcover

review 1: This is a very inspiring book about building a career or starting a business with purpose and passion. Reilly is an outstanding, twenty-something author writing primarily for his peers, but his message is relevant to anyone who is in the job market.As I read this book, I found myself measuring my current life against the ideals of my 18-year-old self. I felt pretty good about that analysis, which is somewhat comforting, as I'm not doing so well compared to the somewhat more cynical ideals of my 30-year-old self.The greatest value of the book is the thoughtful analysis on failure in the final chapter. Successful people, Reilly says, really think of failure differently than unsuccessful people. Successful people learn from failure while the unsuccessful ones internalize ... morefailure and identify themselves with it.Overall, this is certainly a book that I would recommend!
review 2: I was fortunate to win a copy of this book through the Goodreads giveaway.This is a collection of interviews with young people who have found themselves extraordinary careers that line up with their dreams and value systems. The author guides the reader through how the business environment has radically changed with this current generation of workers. He discusses how one should be open to interning to get the required experience post college, should be willing to disrupt the current business environment, and should not be afraid to pursue their own business venture that lines up with their values.He interviews he founders of TOMS shoes, Napster, FEED and many other ventures, and analyzes why he believes that the for profit companies that are philanthropic in their operations are the wave of the future. There is lots of good information in this book, for businesspeople of all ages, not just those straight out of college who are looking for employment. less

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