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The Best Book to Read About Running a Business 📈

2023-10-13 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:48 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

In a Short, Ali recommends It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, the Basecamp founders' guide to running a calm company, which he has read four times, and says its philosophy is the one he wants for his own business and team.

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00:00:00 — It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work and the calm company

  • ★★★ Ali recommends It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, which he has read for the fourth time and learns something from on every reading, as the ultimate guide to running a calm company, based on how Basecamp is run. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Jason Fried (quoted): Where many businesses and business books say success is about ambition, big hairy audacious goals and hard work, the Basecamp authors of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work say running a business can be calm rather than hectic. — 00:00:13
  • ★★ Jason Fried (quoted): According to It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, a business owner does not need 80-hour weeks, very strong ambitions or a plan to change the world: a business can offer a nice service to paying customers and a good environment for owners and employees. — 00:00:26
  • ★★ Ali says the calm-company philosophy of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is the one he would like to embody in his own business and team. — 00:00:29

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Central: It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Also: Basecamp · David Heinemeier Hansson · Jason Fried

Also centred on It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life

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