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 enlarge | Author: Daniel H. Pink
Creator: Rob Ten Pas
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 2803
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1594482918
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9781594482915
ASIN: 1594482918
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 excellent delivery June 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book delivers exactly what it promises: career advice presented in a very unique and compelling way.
"Bunko"=HIGH potential for young Careerists. June 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Bunko" has been carefully reviewed here at Career Control Center. In addition to being used in our research with Clients (plus an extensive Evaluation Questionnaire). To date, most responses have been very positive. We are currently analyzing this data further and plan to utilize "Bunko" extensively with sub 25 year old Clients and in our research and promotion activities. This may well part of the answer..
The gift for Grads of 2008! June 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is something that your graduating senior will actually read! This book has great advice for--really--a newly changing world. Old advice on career planning doesn't cut it anymore. It is much better to use a compass, than a map when thinking about the future
Do your loved one a favor and buy a career guide, with great advice--that he/she will actually read! Buy this book!
Extraordinary guidance, with pictures! June 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Subtitled "The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need," this intriguing little book is written in manga (Japanese word for comics, read all over Japan on a variety of topics). Clearly written to connect the newer workforce (the style is illustrated comic book panels with the narrative in bubbles, etc.), it is nonetheless quite insightful, humorous and extremely practical in its focus.
The protagonist, Johnny Bunko (his adventures continue at [...]) is in a deadend job as a "bean counter" for a large corporation called Boggs, Inc. He inadvertently meets up with a "genie" with an attitude called Diana who appears when he breaks apart some chopsticks from his takeout order. Over the course of the story, Diana proceeds to give Johnny and some of his coworkers the six "lessons of a successful, satisfying career" (to quote Diana). Each lesson is delivered by Diana when Johnny reaches a critical point in his work, summoning her once more by breaking apart another set of chopsticks.
The six lessons are:
1) There is no plan. No career can be mapped out in its entirety from start to finish, don't even try. Do things for fundamental reasons, not instrumental ones.
2) Think strengths, not weaknesses (Diana references Martin Seligman of "Authentic Happiness" and Marcus Buckingham of "Go, Put Your Strengths to Work" by showing them to Johnny as bobbleheads. She even introduces Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" research to the befuddled employee).
3) It's not about you. It's about the customer, the client, making your boss look good while using your strengths.
4) Persistence trumps talent. Dogged determination is the key to success, and is much more easily maintained when you are doing things that feed your passion.
5) Make excellent mistakes. If you are constantly concerned about doing things wrong, you will miss out on extraordinary solutions. To quote Diana, "the most successful people make spectacular mistakes - huge, honking screwups! ...each time they make a mistake, they get a little better and move a little closer to excellence."
6) Leave an imprint. Do something that enables you to look back on your career and know that you made a difference, that your being here mattered.
An extraordinary book, packed with solid advice in a format that can be read easily in under an hour.
The use of Anime as a platform for wisdom... June 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll keep my review short, since this is a short book. I was scared that I was not getting value for my money but boy was I wrong. The books is comprised of six career principles and some other pearls of wisdom but the use of anime, allows the examples to be so clear and concise that it is not necessary to include anymore details and so at the end, I did not feel cheated. The book is really designed like a manga. It is good that the writer didn't keep the dialogue childish and the artist was able to convey a wide range of emotions. The story is a universal one in that, anyone can relate. It deals with destiny, failure, selflessness, perseverance and leaving a legacy. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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