Business Model You

GLOBAL HIT*Finally, a book that shows you how to replace career uncertainty with career confidence, step-by-step Before they make important decisions, entrepreneurs, scientists, and other professionals maximize results and minimize risk by testing future scenarios using models. Now you, too, can use models to test career decisions: with the single-page visual method that's already helping hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide. Careers were complicated enough before explosive changes swept the world, igniting even greater complexity and triggering uncertainty--along with hidden opportunities. All of this compels professionals to reinvent how they work. But how? The key is to draw a visual "picture" of your work--a model--that quickly gives you an entirely new understanding of what your work means to employers, customers, colleagues--and you. This model instantly triggers new insights and identifies next career moves you can make with confidence. Readers of the first edition of Business Model You will find this all-new, full-color book deepens their understanding of the method with new tools and techniques including the Work Model Canvas, Outward Focus, Third Objects, The Three Questions, the "Passion" Myth, the Valuable Work Detector, and Reasons to Choose You. Examples covering 50 occupations in both commercial and not-for-profit sectors are features, all alphabetically indexed at the front of the book. A global hit available in 20 languages, Business Model You pioneered the model-based approach to work reinvention that's been adopted for use by thousands of corporations, universities, and not-for-proit organizations worldwide. Want to replace career uncertainty with career confidence? Reinvent the most important model of all: Business Model You.

1 Diagram Learn to understand and describe workplaces--and your own work CHAPTER 1 The Key to Workplace Satisfaction and the Cure for Workplace Suffering 15 CHAPTER 2 To Understand Your Work, Understand Your Workplace 23 CHAPTER 3 Next, Diagram How You Work 65 2 Reflect Revisit your work model and consider parts that need to change CHAPTER 4 Now, Identify "Hotspots" and Refine Your Professional Identity 93 3 Revise Re-diagram your work model CHAPTER 5 Revise Your Work Model 125 4 Test Test your work model CHAPTER 6 Now, Test Your Work Model 155 CHAPTER 7 Brand and Promote Yourself 181 5 Next Steps Learn how to keep going--and meet the community and resources behind Business Model You® CHAPTER 8 The Three Commandments of Career Change 207 CHAPTER 10 Find Your Think Out Loud Partner 233 Resources 244