If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- Have you ever wondered why your first job shouldn’t be about the salary or the title, but about finding a specific type of environment that will shape the rest of your career?
- What’s the secret to creating a product so compelling that it feels inevitable, and why is the 'story' you tell more important than the features you build?
- What if you could navigate the transition from employee to CEO with a roadmap that tells you exactly when to take the leap and how to survive the most difficult 'crisis' moments of leadership?
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Key Takeaways from Build
- Discover why early adulthood is the ideal time to take bold risks, embrace failure, and avoid the trap of inaction to find your true career passion.
- Understand how to transition from an individual contributor to an effective manager. Learn to focus on outcomes and set uncompromising standards without micromanaging your team's process.
- Learn how to track your team's progress and well-being by keeping a structured list of milestones, project worries, and innovative ideas.
- Master the 'virus of doubt' storytelling technique to advocate for your new product. Find out how highlighting a frustrating everyday problem perfectly sets up your product as the ultimate solution.
- Find out why establishing a clear 'why' is the most critical step in product development. Discover how telling a superior story will help you win the market, regardless of your competitors' technology.
Build — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: In your early adulthood, do as much as possible, stumble often, and learn from it all.
Chapter 3: Managing a team is all about guiding it in the right direction, without micromanaging.
Chapter 4: When promoting your product, always concentrate on the reason why.
Chapter 5: Recruit a diverse team, and recruit carefully.
Chapter 6: As CEO, drive your employees to do their best and avoid coddling them.
Build Summary & Overview
Build (2022) is a self-styled “mentor in a box” – an encyclopedia of business advice about everything from getting a job and managing a team to telling a story around your product and being a successful CEO. A mentor is an absolute must-have for anyone who aspires to start and run a business – but not everyone has one available right away. That’s what Build is for.
Who Should Listen to Build?
- New graduates who aspire to found their own businesses
- CEOs thinking about quitting and starting something new
- Anyone who wants to see their idea for a product, service, or company come to fruition
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