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Kluger Mann mit viel Erfahrung aber zu kompliziert und unübersichtlich geschrieben

31. Oktober 2015

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Ich lese regelmäßig den Blog von Charles Hugh Smith und hatte deshalb große Erwartungen an das Buch. Leider wurden diese nicht erfüllt. Er schreibt und schreibt und schreibt, aber kommt meiner Meinung nach nicht zum Punkt. Seine Gedanken sollten am Ende jeden Kapitels zusammengefasst werden, denn so wirkt das Buch sehr unübersichtlich und ist schwer verständlich. Auch Übersichtsgrafiken wären nicht falsch gewesen.

Ich hoffte mir einen Guide zu finden, der mir die Richtung meiner zukünftigen Karriere und beruflichen Laufbahn aufbereitet, dagegen empfand ich mehr allgemeine "Systemkritik". Schade

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A new way of looking at getting a job

21. April 2014 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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This is an excellent book. It will make you grow as a person. The first part is a discussion on how our current economy structures employment. And the vested interests keeping it that way. Charles Hugh Smith then lucidly explains why its decline is inevitable. Somehow we knew all that and were too scared to look. Charles shows how this is part of the natural cycle of decay. Then, slowly, like the sun rising, Charles illustrates a new cycle of growth that is beginning, a new economy that, once your eyes are opened, you can see examples of everywhere around you. This is so obvious once it is shown. He shows how and where the new jobs are being created and it is possibly not what you might think. He provides a detailed path of action that can be followed by anyone to become a part of that new growth curve, to deal yourself in to this new world. I can see how my job was subject to the forces he describes and I can see a new path ahead. I am 58. This book is equally valuable to a school-leaver, graduate, ex-employee as to a retiree. This book makes changes inside your brain. Read it all and read it carefully. It is life-transforming.

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Ross W V Milburn

Become an entrepreneur and make yourself valuable to others

28. April 2017 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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This is an extremely good book that provides advice on the most fundamental and intelligent approach to obtaining paid work of any kind, for people of any age or situation, and in any kind of economy. Charles Hugh Smith is an unusual man: both an acute intellectual, and a practical man of business. His analysis of the market for work is based on his analysis of what organisations actually want when they search for either employees or contractors to do particular work.

Most young people assume that “getting a good degree” from an accredited university is the major hurdle that delivers “a job,” and these days they often end up with a debt that will take decades to pay back, and a diploma that fails to deliver employment. In brief, Smith regards all conventional universities as cartels that generate scarcity and astronomical fees for degrees, but which deliver standardised coursework that acts as a proxy for professional competence, but incorporates none of the skills or social competence needed in today’s working environments.

Smith uses the word “professionalism” to denote eight skills that comprise a common approach to mastery in any vocation:
1. Learn challenging new material over one’s entire productive life.
2. Creatively apply newly-mastered knowledge and skills to a variety of fields.
3. Be adaptable, responsible and accountable in all work environments.
4. Apply a full spectrum of entrepreneurial skills to any task, i.e. take ownership of one’s work.
5. Work collaboratively and effectively with others, both in person and remotely.
6. Communicate clearly and effectively in all work environments.
7. Continually build human and social capital, i.e. knowledge and networks.
8. Possess a practical working knowledge of financial records and project management.

Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is Smith’s injunction to work-seekers to “accredit themselves.” In other words, instead of merely studying to obtain a diploma, which research indicates proves virtually nothing about a student’s fitness to do any specific type of work, job-seekers should actually seek out and do appropriate work to build up a portfolio that really does exhibit their proven competence. Smith shows how such a track record can be built up even when actual jobs are unavailable, and how working for multiple organisations – if necessary without payment – can generate testimonials from respected individuals that are far more convincing that the typical resume put together by students.

I thoroughly recommend this book for its powerful new ideas and its practicality.

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A. Brown

Excellent Introduction to developing a Holistic View

10. Juni 2017 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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This book works on many levels. It does a fantastic job of:

1. Explaining the unsustainability of the existing college and corporate paradigm.

2. Providing a basic skill template and approach to developing one self in the long term

3. Explaining that it isn't about finding that magical career. It is much more about developing a long term philosophical approach to life and what you choose to do in it

The last point is far and way the book's strongest quality. For those with young children, this is an especially useful book for you and them in thinking about their development. Highly recommended.

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David T. Ting

too much redundancy

24. November 2014 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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Some good ideas, but the last half of the book is very redundant.
Would have been a better book if it were more tightly edited.

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Max Zeledon

A Blueprint for the New Economy

3. Februar 2017 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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Great read! Charles Hugh Smith has written a compelling blueprint for the new economy. It is about understanding the forces that are transforming the way we work and adapting accordingly. The material is presented in an insightful style that avoids jargon and the usual self-help b.s. to provide a practical guideline that readers can actually put to work themselves.

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