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Book title: Rework
Author: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Summary: The authors of this book started the company 37signals, which is a web-design consulting firm that offers online tools. They wrote this book to help offer their insight and advice on running a small business that are far from the conventional way.
They start out by saying ignore what the real world says, you should do and just do what works for you. Instead of learning from failures you should learn from your successes. You should build upon what worked and if it worked the first time, it’ll work even better then next time. Planning is guessing so don’t stress about making long-term plans instead just focus on what you have to do this week …show more content…

Grow slow and do what feels right, growing equates to more headaches and stress.
Being small right now provides you with the flexibility and agility that big businesses don’t have. When starting your business do something that is meaningful and important to you and create a product or service that if you stopped delivering people would notice. Scratch your own itch and make a product you need and would use. This is the best way to see what you are offering is actually effective. An idea is just an idea, so start making that idea come to life and stop making excuses. Having no time is not an excuse, if you want to pursue your idea you’ll make time by either not watching an hour of TV tonight or staying up an hour later. Some people will love you and others will hate you, the ones who love you love you for what you believe in so never lose what you believe. Any business can write up a fancy, good sounding mission. Missions need to be acted upon not just written down. Plan Z is accepting any outside money. …show more content…

Don’t hire until it hurts, until you can no longer go without someone else to take over. Pass on great people if you don’t need them even if they are great you’ll find yourself creating artificial work to keep them and this is more money towards your costs. Hire slowly and create an environment where people are comfortable challenging others and having conflict. If everyone is strangers appeasement happens. Don’t hire from resumes because they are not personalized to your business rather hire based on the cover letter. Don’t hire based on years of experience, education, or GPA it takes six months to a year to understand the foundation of a position and instead of hiring how long you should check to see how well. Hire managers of one, who figure things out themselves and don’t need direction. Hire good writers because it shows qualities of clear thinking, good communication, and understanding. Test out employees before hiring by assigning a 20 to 40 hour project to see how they work and handle certain situations.
If you do something wrong own up to it genuinely to customers and don’t try to hide because everything will eventually get out. Speed changes everything when dealing with customers whether is via phone call or e-mail. Even if you don’t know, respond with “I’ll do my research and get back to you.” Make sure everyone gets experience

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