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1 online resource |
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"Do you ever wonder where you fit in? Do you sometimes get that feeling that you have something much bigger to offer the universe, but then it fills you with fear and anxiety, so you think maybe I'll just pay it safe? But what is safe? The factory job? The cubicle job? Factories all over have been converted to open spaces for startups. Skyscrapers have entire floors open for lease because the "same as everyone else" class of jobs have dried up. Many of us were raised to seek out a job that required us to fit in, to conform, to adapt until we fit the mold. The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth is a guide for the kind of person who wouldn't normally pick up a business book. The personal business revolution is upon us. Here's your recipe book for starting your revolutionary business, including some of what you will learn: How to be as weird as you want while providing a viable business structure to support it What most people are missing from the basic frameworks of doing business How to turn passions into businesses How to build out the Digital Channel What Kickstarter and Square mean for the future of business) Take the plunge. Learn to fail and then win. Dare to do something that "everyone else" doesn't. The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth will help. Bestselling author and successful entrepreneur Chris Brogan explains step-by-step how to build your business from the ground up, all without compromising the unique mindset and personal values that make you a freak in the first place"-- Provided by publisher |
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"The book is a mix of recipes for action plus interviews with successful personal business professionals, from watch makers to barbershop employees to cafe owners to digital entrepreneurs to even the big companies that are equipping the personal business revolution"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Business new and old and new again -- The wild colors and the solid spine -- Choose your own adventure: defining success -- Skill building for your business goals -- Fall in love with not knowing -- Structure a framework for your days -- Are you an Employeepreneur? -- Create systems that work for you -- Are you a solo or small business owner? -- Fall in love with not knowing, redux -- Worship obstacles and challenges -- Build your own media empire -- Connect with your freaks -- Own everything -- When it all goes wrong -- Take action! Fight crime! Save the world. |
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The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators; Contents; Preface; 1: Business New and Old and New Again; Okay, What Does This Really Mean?; Am I a Freak? Are You?; Is There Some Age Limit to Freaks?; But What Does This Have to Do with Business?; You Don't Have to Wait for Permission; Can You Be Sure of the Outcome Before You Start? Not a Chance!; Freaks Often Find Their Own Distribution Paths; Challenges That Stand in Your Way; Business Is about Belonging; 2: The Wild Colors and the Solid Spine. |
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What Makes Some Freaks Successful and Other Freaks Strugglers? Those Pesky Coins; Embedding Art into Your Craft; Know the Basics of Business; Other Business Models; Our Fear and How It Messes Up Our Businesses; Fear Is Probably Your Business's Worst "Competitor"; Missing Ingredient: Discipline; Willpower Will Let You Down; Discipline Is Where It's At; How to Build Discipline; "Should" Means "Won't"; The "Experience" Lie; 3: Choose Your Own Adventure: Defining Success; What Does Success Look Like to You?; Ingredients for Your Own Personal Success Recipe; Failure Is Most Definitely an Option. |
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Quitting Is an Option, Too Success Comes to You from Weird Places Sometimes; That Mix of Wild Success and Finding Other Successes; Success Rarely Just Happens; Be Ready for Success; 4: Skill Building for Your Business Goals; The Real Basics; Business Is about Belonging; Our Quasi-Tribal Nature; Let Them Share the Identity; A Little More about Name Magic; See the Territory, Not the Map; Hone Your Understanding with Questions; Garbage and Gold Questions; Sketch Simple Business Models; What Comprises a Successful Business Model?; Elements of a Business Model; Master Time; Strip Away Complexity. |
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5: Fall in Love with Not Knowing Everything We Know How to Do Starts with Not Knowing How to Do It; Roderick Russell: Sword Swallower; Try It; Want to Know Something? Ask Good Questions; One Good Way to Get Answers Is to Figure It Out; Some Things Are Unknowable; Be Willing to Be Dumb and Wrong; How to Be Wrong; Curiosity Gets Such a Bad Rap (R.I.P., Cat); Explore So Much That You Make Dora Look Like a Homebody; The Secret Prison of Not Knowing "Regular" Stuff; Testing and Stats and Analytics: My Story of Not Knowing; Not Knowing versus Not Thinking Something Through; A Fun Project. |
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6: Structure a Framework for Your Days Structure Gets a Bad Rap; Cure Your Procrastination; Fear and Procrastination; Develop a Long View: Our Days Must Serve Our Weeks and Our Weeks Must Serve Our Larger Goals; A Daily Framework; What Not to Do; Commit to Working for Two Months with a List; A List of Lists of Awesomeness (or Helpfulness); But Frameworks Aren't All Lists: Habits and More; What Comes Next?; 7: Are You an Employeepreneur?; What a Boss Wants; The Matrix (the Movie, That Is) and You; Communication and Word Choice; Brevity Is the Gold Standard in Business. |
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Small business -- Management.
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Entrepreneurship.
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New business enterprises -- Management.
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Entrepreneurship |
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Petites et moyennes entreprises -- Gestion. |
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Entrepreneuriat. |
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Nouvelles entreprises -- Gestion. |
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entrepreneurs. |
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Small business -- Management |
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Entrepreneurship |
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New business enterprises -- Management |
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Print version: Brogan, Chris. Freaks shall inherit the earth. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014 9781118800553 (DLC) 2014012246 |
| ISBN |
9781118800317 (epub) |
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1118800311 (epub) |
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9781118800218 (pdf) |
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1118800214 (pdf) |
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(hardback) |
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