Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career

Used this for a Small Business Entrepreneur class. I've run my own small business and found this book helpful not only in planning to start another one, but for some life goal work as well. The book is full of examples. You could work through it on your own without a college class. I liked it enough I kept the paperback instead of selling it back to the bookstore.The Kindle version business model canvas has tiny type; download it from the publisher's site in more bifocal-friendly form so you can use the Post-it note system. Do buy some small Post-it notes and print off a canvas before starting, unless you own a very large whiteboard. I dislike filler, but read the example stories in every chapter. They have useful info that helps you understand your own and your partners' motivation. This book doesn't go into intricacies of applying for loans or tax/permit filing. It's a guide to what to consider when making a startup plan, and how to research demand so you know your company has a viable product or service before embarrassing/bankrupting yourself and your partners.Our class formed teams to create a startup plan for a viable small business. One instructor/peer grading criterion was "Would you loan startup capital to this team based on their proposal?" Following the instructions in this book, we got an A.

I'm a business consultant and executive coach, and I have to tell you that I like this book. But what I really like is the approach in the book. It is simple, straightforward and well-thought out. More importantly, it is impactful. It won't tell you what your purpose is, nor what your business model should be. Nothing and no one can actually do that for you. But it is an excellent process of reflection and mapping that will very likely lead you to insights and clarity. And, if you take your courage in both hands and act on that, then more and more insights and clarity will come. I will be recommending this to clients in situations where I feel a process like this may help them, and so I am also recommending it to you if the time is ripe for you to reflect, reframe and move forward in a different way. And if you are a procrastinator, then I will also recommend the book The War of Art. It is an excellent complement to this, showing us what resistance and procrastination are, and how to overcome it.

I enjoyed Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur's "Business Model Generation." It gave me a process to develop a visual for how the programs I lead work that I can easily share with stakeholders across my organization. So when this book came out, I bought it immediately. Now, I buy a lot of business books and I don't always finish reading them. This one I read in one sitting on a Saturday morning over my coffee. I couldn't put it down. I appreciate the way it leads you through the development of your personal business model and the personal examples shared by others and I am now using it to work my way through the development of my own one-pager (using lots of scratch paper along the way). If you are looking for a framework to capture your career plan and a process for putting it together, this book is a great guide.

Great personal stories of real people. Compares how business organizations work and applies those principles to your career and life. Rich graphic page designs. Exercises help readers examine their work, life goals and create strategies for reinventing career path.

Like it's cousin, "Business Model You" asks you to look at your career as a canvas of 9 parts. This isn't a cookie cutter model, though. The canvas takes you through 9 parts of a business model that you get to paint. Painting and canvas aren't loose metaphors here, you can actually paint on the canvas using sticky notes and pictures. For example, key activities is one of the parts. What do you do? Draw a wrench and a beetle, because you fix software bugs, or write down fix software bugs. The pictures make it more real and tell a better story. That's what makes painting on the canvas so good, you can tell a better story of what you do, who you do it for, who helps you, who gets benefitted by it, how much it costs, how much you take in. Highly enjoyable. Great stories. Well worth the time.

I wish this book had been around early on in my career, or maybe even before I went to college! It is very useful to help you figure out what you really want to do or should be doing, using the Business Model Canvas from the book "Business Model Generation" (which is a must-read for anyone serious about working in a business/corporation or starting a business, in my opinion).Aside from the content itself, I love the design and layout of the book, and it is a pleasure to read. I also love the fact that hundreds of people from all over the world contributed to the creation of this book.

I think that anything that give you the opportunity to learn something is a gift. If you are able to connect with this book, you will have the opportunity to understand something simple but essential, what you are is what you do, so enjoy the journey!.

I rated this 5 stars because this is an interesting new way to look at one's career and it gives you the tools to try and figure things out and get them together and make a solid plan for what you want to do by asking questions. Maybe that's how my brain works but I ask questions to get to where I want to be and figure out what things I want to do. This to me is a great way to try and find solutions and the book provides the questions you should ask yourself and the answers that you should look for.

The one-pager is the end-result of a number of very insightful exercises. The book provides an excellent process to get from how you work currently to where you want to be and how to get there by modifying the elements in your personal business model. Highly recommended.

I mostly work online and in January my laptop was out of action for about 5 days. I had to get a tablet and I bought this book to be productive. I like the methodology in the book. If you try to do it all in a few days, it feels a bit tedious to do all the exercises.However, I stuck in and the end canvas result really helped me to formulate my future goals.I think the title could be a bit misleading as it can also help your current career goals rather than 'reinventing' them as well!

I am very pleased with this purchase. The book is well designed and the content interesting and very motivating. I bought this book in preference to the other by the same team, Business Model Generation, as I think it is more suited to readers who, like myself, are interested in working as self-employed freelancers as opposed to running a larger business. I think it is also useful in purely personal development terms.

I stumbled across this book whilst looking for strategy books for business. I did not know what to expect! This is a very enjoyable book that will help people identifying key strenghts and to visualise them in one page. It is based on how to structure a business model with the difference that the business is yourself. Very effective, fun and insightful. Highly recommended. It would make also a fantastic present for insightful smart friends.

In a fast changing world employability is Key even if you work within a company. This book is an easy and helpfull tool to reflect on your own added value. It will help people to craft their own job inside or outside a organisation. Great help to JobCraft. I combine it with the Business Model Canvas App in iPad to keep momentum ...Philippe - Living Systems Coach