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

Business Model Generation has been useful for me as a business consultant because I could easily communicate the "story" of any business a client who might be considering changing or buying it. When the community was asked if we wanted to participate in a project to apply this tool to individuals, I readily agreed.I was expecting to be discussing the mechanics of things like defining Customer Segments for an individual as opposed to an organization. Yes we did that. Every organization has customers or they wouldn't exist. It's typical to start an organizational business model here. But people exist without customers, so where would we base an individual's model? Really interesting stuff; but not yet life changing.Then the development of Business Model YOU totally surprised me when it began to take a Spiritual (not Religious) turn. Something is Spiritual in my life if it has personal meaning to me. That meaning started to surface when we considered every Business Model to be a kind of blueprint; and agreed that every blueprint is created by an architect to achieve some purpose. To really architect a Business Model for your career, there needs to be some understanding to of your life's purpose.Suddenly finding, communicating, and creating attractive values for customers became simple compared to finding values that relate my career to my personal purpose. This is really hard work and Tim Clark, the book's author, never tried to dance around it. With surprising simplicity, he took us beyond the modeling world and into ways of looking at our careers as a fulfillment of our personal purposes.I then realized this is what my clients really wanted when looking at a business. The answer to their concerns was more in their Personal Business Model than in the organization's under consideration. My perception of who I am and why I do things has changed. I am no longer the same person.Funny, the Business Model YOU experience has changed my perspective on every organizational model as well. Having been through this work, you have an expanded intuition about changing the perspectives on all of the Business Model segments. You will never see personal careers or organizations the same way again. You will never be the same person either.Bob Fariss - co-creator Business Model YOU, Fort Worth Texas

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.

This book hands you a good method to assess and redesign your career. For this, it uses the business model canvas which is a powerful toll to asses and design a business model. It is a real do-book. It has a number of assignments in it bringing you closer to your goal every time you have fulfilled one. The book uses a similar approach as Business Model Canvas, assuming oneâ(tm)s career can be modelled like a business. Up to a certain point this is very true. The book provides you with a new perspective on your career and makes you think about your skills and value proposition to your customer, e.g. employers. However, the focus is sometimes too much on making money. Although this is certainly one of the goals of a job, it is more important to be satisfied with your life, regardless the amount of money you make. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to reconsider his or her career.

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 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.