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|  | Authors: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Publisher: Crown Business
Category: Book
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Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 259
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307463745
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780307463746
ASIN: 0307463745
Publication Date: March 9, 2010
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Short & to the point August 14, 2010
Joshua Saul
When I read the first three chapters, I was tempted to just skip the rest of the work and avoid downloading it. Some of the concepts presented by the authors challenge "conventional knowledge". Due to the fact that the chapters are well written and structured, I decided to keep reading. I do not agree with the entire content of this work. However, it makes you reflect on the authors' experience and how you should question some of your old "mantras". Overall it is a good book and I do recommend it.
Common sense or contrarian? August 14, 2010
Ilya Grigorik (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Depending on your viewpoint, Rework is either a collection of contrarian essays, or common sense mixed with good business practice. Really, I think its both - you just have to figure out which is which, depending on your own context. The authors often intentionally provoke the reader with a controversial viewpoint, but offer little in terms of actually weighing on both sides short of "it worked for us". Take it for it is - an opinion - and then it is an enjoyable read.
 Here's the most comprehensive review of "Rework" you will find August 11, 2010
Adam Wozniak (Australia)
Since Amazon suggests reviews be between 75 and 300 words in length (!), I will keep it relatively brief here (although I encourage you to read my full review in the link at the end of this review).
But to summarise my thoughts about this book:
I thought it was an excellent read. It's definitely not a step-by-step how-to book, but the book doesn't make the claim that it is. The book claims that it will present ideas and concept that will "rework" the beliefs you have about work. And it does precisely that.
I've had a look at some of the negative reviews on here, and generally they seem to fall into these categories:
1) Criticisms of the length.
Yes, this book is somewhere around 288 pages long, and yes - if you consider the fact that a lot of white space is used and almost every second page is an illustration - it's probably more like 140 pages long. But that's not a bad thing. It's a quick, concise, and extremely coherent piece of work. There is value in not rambling. And there is also value in presenting text in an easy-to-read fashion (unlike typical hardcore business books that due to the publisher's page limitations, end up structuring pages like one huge wall of text ... *ugh*).
2) Criticisms of the concepts not being grounded in "reality".
I don't understand this criticism. The whole point of "Rework" is to challenge pre-existing assumptions about how we do business. Naturally, many of the book's concepts will be EXTREMELY difficult for some people to swallow (especially those coming from the corporate world, I suspect). You might feel quite a bit of resistance with some of the concepts. But again, that's the whole point of this book. You don't necessarily have to agree with EVERYTHING it says, but you should at least be questioning your existing beliefs after reading this. If you're not prepared to do that, and just want to read a book that confirms your traditional business concepts, then this is probably not the book for you.
3) Criticisms about the lack of new content.
This criticism is one that is only raised by those people who are REGULAR readers of 37 Signals' blog. Yes, if you do follow that blog closely (along with others in the same field), then it's possible that 90% of the concepts presented in this book are not going to be new to you. And that's cool. But speaking for myself, I liked the fact that I now have the best concepts on my reference shelf in easy to find (and digest) form whenever I need them. That, again, has value in itself. But if you want to spend hours searching through 37 Signals' blog just to save $12, then you're not implementing a "judo solution" (ie. maximum efficiency with minimum effort).
For my complete review and summary of the book (containing some of the best highlights so that you can see for sure whether this book is something you'd like to read), please feel free to check out:
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I hope it helps you decide whether or not this is the book for you. :)
Quick Great Read! August 10, 2010
K. Winnick
This book is a treasure trove of common sense (as if sense were that common these days) business advice for the beginner in business and for the old pro who has been around the block. I must say it was a very fast read with more of illustrations to make the various points and abbreviated stories/advice snippets. It was great and I'm sure I will read it again to get the full flavor of the various points.
Rework Review August 7, 2010
Sven Duplic
Rework is esentially a cookbook of 37 signals - a world known international small company (16 employees spread out in 8 cities on 2 continents) that makes software to help small companies and groups get things done the easy way making a lot of bucks in the process and not working a second longer that is necessary.
They challenge typical views on business and show us how they look at building, running and growing (or not growing) a business. The book is divided into 88 chapters (each is nicely illustrated and not more than 2 pages long) that are each essentialy principles on wich the foundations of 37signals lay on. You can take a look at all of the illustrations at my blog - perfectbrainstorm.wordpress
This book goes straight to the point, there is no needless information, only useful advice trimmed from all the extra fat wich makes this book easy to read but hard to forget. Highly recomended lads! :)
Sven
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